The Deal of a Lifetime
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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.
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The first one of Fredrik Backman's stories that left me just a bit disappointed, but to be fair, I read it when I was in a really weird mind space and might have come back to it at a later point. (It was also the first one I read in the English translation since I don't think a German one is available, and maybe that also made it feel different and more distant than everything else I've read by him before. Languages are a weird concept, I guess.) It's not a bad book at all, I'm just used to being overwhelmed by his stories, characters and all the emotions they give me, and all of that wasn't as strong here as I expected it to be.
Description
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.
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The first one of Fredrik Backman's stories that left me just a bit disappointed, but to be fair, I read it when I was in a really weird mind space and might have come back to it at a later point. (It was also the first one I read in the English translation since I don't think a German one is available, and maybe that also made it feel different and more distant than everything else I've read by him before. Languages are a weird concept, I guess.) It's not a bad book at all, I'm just used to being overwhelmed by his stories, characters and all the emotions they give me, and all of that wasn't as strong here as I expected it to be.