The deal of a lifetime : a novella / Fredrik Backman ; translated by Alice Menzies.
Material type:
TextLanguage: English Original language: Swedish Publisher: New York : Atria Books, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First Atria books hardcover editionDescription: 65 pages : color illustrations ; 19 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9781501193491
- 150119349X
- Ditt livs affär. English
| Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult Book
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Main Library | Fiction | BACKMAN, FREDRIK | Available | 33111010829253 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
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.
Translated from the Swedish.
It's Christmas Even morning. Years ago a man abandoned his son to pursue professional success; now he wonders if it's too late to forge a relationship with him. One week earlier, in a hospital late at night, the man met a five-year-old girl with cancer. When the man is given the chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the eyes of his son before he makes the deal of a lifetime.