A Man Called Ove
Characters in A Man Called Ove
9 characters, main characters first.Main characters
Ove (A Man Called Ove)
A 59-year-old widower who enforces the rules of his housing estate to the letter, and whose careful plans are repeatedly derailed by the neighbours who keep needing him.
Supporting characters
Sonja (A Man Called Ove)
Ove's late wife, a teacher of children with learning difficulties whose warmth and love of books were the counterweight to his rigidity.
Parvaneh (A Man Called Ove)
The heavily pregnant Iranian woman who moves in across from Ove, refuses to be intimidated by him, and steadily conscripts him into her family's life.
Patrick (A Man Called Ove)
Parvaneh's husband, an IT consultant who embodies everything Ove distrusts about modern men and who cannot be trusted with a ladder.
Rune (A Man Called Ove)
Ove's neighbour of decades — first friend, then rival through years of feuding over cars and the housing association — now living with dementia.
Anita (A Man Called Ove)
Rune's wife and Sonja's close friend, who turns to Ove when the authorities move to take Rune into care.
Jimmy (A Man Called Ove)
A cheerful, perpetually hungry young neighbour who grew up on the street and remembers Ove and Sonja from childhood.
Adrian (A Man Called Ove)
A local teenager working as a postman and in a cafe, who asks Ove to help him repair a bicycle.
Mirsad (A Man Called Ove)
A young man in his early twenties working at the cafe with Adrian, who turns to Ove when he has nowhere else to go.