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The Deal of a Lifetime

The Deal of a Lifetime 1

A Novella

by Fredrik Backman
Hardback
Publication Date: 31/10/2017
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In this short story enhanced with beautiful illustrations, the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, Beartown, and Anxious People delivers an insightful and poignant tale about finding out what is truly important in life.

A father and a son are seeing each other for the first time in years. The father has a story to share before it's too late. He tells his son about a courageous little girl lying in a hospital bed a few miles away. She's a smart kid--smart enough to know that she won't beat cancer by drawing with crayons all day, but it seems to make the adults happy, so she keeps doing it.

As he talks about this plucky little girl, the father also reveals more about himself: his triumphs in business, his failures as a parent, his past regrets, his hopes for the future.

Now, on a cold winter's night, the father has been given an unexpected chance to do something remarkable that could change the destiny of a little girl he hardly knows. But before he can make the deal of a lifetime, he must find out what his own life has actually been worth, and only his son can reveal that answer.

With humor and compassion, Fredrik Backman's The Deal of a Lifetime reminds us that life is a fleeting gift, and our legacy rests in how we share that gift with others.

ISBN:
9781501193491
9781501193491
Category:
Fiction
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
31-10-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Atria Books
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
180.97x130.18x20.32mm
Weight:
0.24kg
Fredrik Backman

Fredrik Backman is a Swedish blogger, columnist and author. He is the Number One New York Times bestselling author of A Man Called Ove, and top ten bestsellers My Grandmother Sends Her Regards and Apologises and Britt-Marie Was Here, as well as a novella, And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer.

His books are published in more than thirty-five countries and he has sold over seven million copies. The Scandal - published as Beartown in the US - is being adapted for TV by the team behind The Bridge. Fredrik lives in Stockholm, Sweden, with his wife and two children.

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The Deal of a Lifetime is a novella by Swedish author and blogger, Fredrik Backman. A forty-five-year-old father writes his twenty-year-old son a letter on Christmas Eve. In it, this ruthless businessman ponders the value of one life over another, and details how poor a job of fathering he has done. Now, he is dying of terminal cancer; or maybe he’s dying in a traffic accident; that isn’t entirely clear. He’s not the only one facing death: the owner of a toy rabbit called Babbit, a sweet five-year-old girl, has cancer too. Backman’s Grim Reaper is a woman in a grey sweater with a folder. The father sees the opportunity to make the deal of a lifetime, but there’s a catch. A moving tale that’s bound to leave a lump in the throat.

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