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Nasanin is Parvaneh and Patrick's three-year-old daughter. Ove finds her toddler language perplexing and her boundless energy tiring. She thinks that Ove is the funniest and most exciting person she's ever met and because of this, she draws pictures of Ove using wild colors. She tries very hard to form a relationship with the cat, though the cat is entirely uninterested in being friends with a toddler. Nasanin also teaches Ove the proper way to read storybooks.
Nasanin Quotes in A Man Called Ove
The A Man Called Ove quotes below are all either spoken by Nasanin or refer to Nasanin. For each quote, you can also see the other characters and themes related to it (each theme is indicated by its own dot and icon, like this one:
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Chapter 13 Quotes
"And you can't let the girls freeze to death tonight, Ove, right? It's quite enough that they had to watch you assault a clown, no?"
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Parvaneh / “The Foreign Pregnant Woman” (speaker), Ove, The Seven-year-old, Patrick / “The Lanky One”, Nasanin
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127
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When Ove and Parvaneh return from the hospital, Parvaneh asks Ove if he'll help her with her radiators, while looking concerned about Ove's possible suicide attempt. As she talks to Ove, Parvaneh manipulates the fact that Ove needs things to be right. It would offend Ove's sense of right and wrong to leave children freezing in their home, and Parvaneh realizes that this is the case. She doesn't understand, however, that this particular aspect of Ove's right and wrong is also linked to what he thinks Sonja will feel about it when he meets her in the afterlife. Essentially, Ove goes through much of the present part of the novel using Sonja's beliefs as his test for what's right and wrong, rather than his own. He uses the family and community he had with Sonja to influence how he builds a community now, and indeed, the fact that he builds a community at all is largely due to her influence.
Chapter 24 Quotes
When she says that last bit she points at a figure in the middle of the drawing. Everything else on the paper is drawn in black, but the figure in the middle is a veritable explosion of color. A riot of yellow and red and blue and green and orange and purple.
"You're the funniest thing she knows. That's why she always draws you in color," says Parvaneh.
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Chapter 39 Quotes
"They can call me whatever they like. No need for you to stick your bloody nose in."
And then he puts up the drawings one by one on the fridge. The one that says "To Granddad" gets the top spot.
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Nasanin Character Timeline in A Man Called Ove
The timeline below shows where the character Nasanin appears in A Man Called Ove. The colored dots and icons indicate which themes are associated with that appearance.
3. A Man Called Ove Backs Up With a Trailer
...the flapping three year old on his porch. The older one calls the little one Nasanin, and they walk to the Pregnant Foreign Woman across the street.
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4. A Man Called Ove Does Not Pay a Three-Kroner Surcharge
...their three-year-old get out of the Toyota. The three-year-old excitedly introduces herself to Ove as Nasanin but when her parents try to introduce themselves, Ove is already heading for the entrance...
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13. A Man Called Ove and a Clown Called Beppo
Nasanin is delighted by Ove. The seven-year-old is less delighted as she leads her sister up...
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...sit with Ove while she goes to see Patrick. She disappears before Ove can argue. Nasanin happily screams and runs towards the kids' toys in the waiting room. Ove turns to...
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...unsuccessfully to not curse as he argues with her about the quality of the book. Nasanin is thrilled that Ove swore and cries "clown!" When Ove insists he's not a clown,...
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...a security guard standing on either side of them. When Parvaneh asks incredulously what happened, Nasanin happily shrieks that Ove hit the clown. The seven-year-old tries to explain that the clown...
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When Ove, Parvaneh, Nasanin, and the seven-year-old make it back to Ove's garage, Parvaneh offers to pay Ove's parking...
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22. A Man Called Ove and Someone in a Garage
Fifteen minutes later, Parvaneh and Nasanin knocked on Ove's door. When Parvaneh heard voices from the parking area, she followed them...
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...is a hero and saved a man from a train yesterday. Parvaneh is awestruck and Nasanin starts to chase the cat around Ove's ankles. Ove mumbles a brief explanation of what...
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...third time in a week. The cat looks disappointed that it had to ride with Nasanin in the back seat. Parvaneh had given Lena a business card and instructed her to...
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...that it has Ove to thank for the fact that it doesn't currently live with Nasanin. The cat goes to sleep and Ove thinks he knows that Nasanin certainly isn't allergic...
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24. A Man Called Ove and a Brat Who Draws In Color
When Ove leaves the hospital, the Saab is filled with people. Parvaneh gives Nasanin crayons, which makes Ove angry. Patrick is wedged into the middle of the backseat and...
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...then join him in the afterlife. He slows down and Parvaneh says that she and Nasanin need the restroom. Jimmy suggests they stop at McDonald's, and when Parvaneh glares at Ove,...
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...the bicycle shed and his passengers get out of the Saab. When Parvaneh lifts out Nasanin, Nasanin waves paper and yells. Parvaneh gives Ove the piece of paper and explains that...
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36. A Man Called Ove and a Whiskey
...over the night before. The narrator says that last night after dinner at Parvaneh's house, Nasanin had asked Ove to read her a story. After Nasanin and the cat had fallen...
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37. A Man Called Ove and a Lot of Bastards Sticking Their Noses In
...children. Ove threw the letter away and put the photograph on his fridge next to Nasanin's color drawing of Ove.
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At the graveyard, Parvaneh, Patrick, Nasanin, the seven-year-old, Jimmy, Adrian, and Mirsad come up behind Ove and greet Sonja. Parvaneh lowers...
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39. A Man Called Ove
...is waiting outside the door. Inside, Parvaneh explains the drawings all over Ove's table that Nasanin and the seven-year-old drew. She looks embarrassed at the writing on the drawings and explains...
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Ove fetches boxes from the attic, and that evening Parvaneh, Nasanin, and the seven-year-old help put Sonja's things away. After 9:00pm, as the girls sleep on...
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A Man Called Ove and an Epilogue
...the two men and then most of the other neighbors with house repairs. Ove takes Nasanin to her first day of school, and she teaches Ove how to insert emojis into...
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