The author of the bestseller A Man Named Ove returns with the funniest book to date Anxieties and their people is a crazy comedy through and through about a group of hostages taken the day before Sylvester during a search of an apartment. Behind the locked door are an individual in a robber's hood who escaped after a failed attempt to rob a bank, a couple of retired people addicted to shopping at Ikea, an acerbic millionaire suffering from depression, a sad old woman who revels in drinking wine, two lesbians expecting a baby every day and an annoying guy with rabbit head. In the end, the robber gives up and lets everyone go, but when the police burst in, the apartment is… empty. In the subsequent series of confused interrogations, everyone tells their version of the events, and the reader is faced with a detective mystery: How did the individual in the robber's hood manage to escape? Why did it demand fireworks instead of ransom? What role does the bridge that can be seen from the balcony of the apartment for sale play in the story? And most importantly — what's going on with everyone today?