![]() ![]() This is a town which has produced famous hockey players such as Anders Hedberg, Peter Forsberg, Markus Naslund, the Sedin twins, Victor Hedman and many more who now play in the USA. He and his mother, Fatima, live in the Hollow, the poorest part of Beartown. ![]() In the first book, he is fifteen years old and despite his young age is promoted to becoming a player of the Beartown junior team. ![]() Even the Swedes shorten it to O-vik to avoid getting your tongue stuck in your teeth -Saturday is hockey night in O-vik. Amat is a major character in the Beartown series. This could well be Beartown – it’s a small seaside town of Båstad but is nestled in a picturesque bay and known as the home of the Sweden Open tennis tournament held each year since 1948 so this town’s population increases when all the sports fans come to town! Ornskoldsvik.ĭon’t bother trying to pronounce it. ![]() The city also has many parks and is known as one of the greenest cities in Europe Båstad There are lots of lakes and streams up here, and woods and so this is a very popular area for sports fans of all ages and kinds – anglers and canoeists to name but two. A fictional place with no real sense of where in Sweden it is, but in this novel it’s the village itself, the woods, the lsolation that is important as well as the people within. ![]()
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