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A bank robbery with hostage-taking. A staircase full of police officers about to rob an apartment. Getting to this was surprisingly easy. It just took a bad idea. A really bad idea: Visiting an apartment for sale is not a life or death situation. Unless it's New Years Eve, you live in a small town in Sweden and someone has had the worst idea of their life and decided to rob a bank that doesn't handle cash. So yes it is. Because when someone is this idiotic, it is inevitable that they do not know how to run away and end up in an apartment for sale taking hostages without wanting to. But you can trust the police. Unless the two officers handling the case don't understand each other and have zero experience with hostage-taking. So no, although everything will be fine if the hostages remain calm. Unless they are the worst hostages ever: a suicidal millionaire, a charming old woman, an IKEA-loving retired couple, two newlyweds who never see eye to eye, an overly enthusiastic realtor, and a man dressed as a rabbit. So no, because, when everyone is an idiot, it is impossible to remain calm. However, police and hostages are about to discover that perhaps being an idiot is not so bad and that sometimes anxiety can be the solution.Anxious People brings together all the elements of Fredrik Backman's universe, inhabited by characters as imperfect as they are touching, and tinged with an inimitable sense of humor, a mixture of irony and compassion, that has captivated millions of readers around the world.FREDRIK BACKMAN is the author of nine books, including the international bestseller A Man Called Ove, whose film version was a candidate for two Oscars. His works have been translated into forty-six languages. Anxious People will be turned into a Netflix series in 2022. Backman lives in Stockholm with his wife and his two children.