'Fredrik Backman started writing about the joys of fatherhood in his blog - and then used these notes for a book, which he called 'A Handbook for Clumsy Parents.' He began working on it after sending the manuscript of 'A Man Called Ove' to publishers, so as not to waste time. And when people from the publishing house Forum contacted him, Fredrik said that he had another book ready that he wanted to publish. But he heard a categorical 'No' - and this answer did not suit him at all. In the end, the publishers gave in, and the book, entitled 'What My Son Should Know About the Structure of the World,' was published at the same time as Ove.
Addressing his little son, Backman discusses a wide variety of things - from football to Ikea, from computer games to the categories of good and evil. And along the way, he shares his first, sometimes comical, experience of fatherhood - with that unique, purely Backman mix of irony and tenderness that brought him The love of millions of readers. This is not only a conversation on equal terms with a tiny creature who has yet to grow into an individual, but also an honest conversation with oneself, an attempt to understand one's responsibility for what is happening in the world.'