The Deal of a Lifetime

In this short story enhanced with beautiful illustrations, the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove and Beartown delivers an insightful and poignant tale about finding out what is truly important in life. His books are published in more than forty countries. He lives in Stockholm.
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• The Deal of a Lifetime | Book by Fredrik Backman | Official Publisher Page | Simon & Schuster
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We begin to understand a little more. We now know what this older lady represents. We expect one thing. His foreword at the beginning, in which he talks about the circumstances that led to writing this novella are just as good. Perhaps just as important to read. It really sets the scene for the whole story, and makes you think beyond the characters and into the writer's life, wondering if the story is in any way a reflection of feelings he's had or has been having, of conflicts he's been facing with his own family.

Fredrik Backman is someone I love reading for, no matter how short the story, or how few the pages. This is a beautiful, meaningful novella, a story told by a father to his son on Christmas Eve. In "The Deal of a Lifetime" there's a five-year-old girl with cancer who is confined to the hospital. In a nearby room is another patient, a very wealthy man, a man who has forsaken his family but by his standards is an important man because in his world, with great wealth comes great worth: You ended up kind. When five-year-old girls die, no one writes about that, there aren't any memorials in the evening papers, their feet are still too small, they haven't had time to make anyone care about their footsteps yet.

Sometimes it seems to me like Backman is better than most people: And while I believe he's blessed with an amazing open heart, it's because in his writing he's so gifted at pinpointing the threads of goodness and greatness that bind us and make us beautiful. And the ones that don't.

This is not like "It's a Wonderful Life. I have loved all of his books; he's my favorite contemporary novelist. It's an instant classic Christmas story. It's the gift you didn't know is exactly what you need to give to yourself and everyone you love.

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This is a short little novella packed full of insights about life and death. It's a short Christmas story told by a father to his son - but it's not a normal Christmas story. The father has been an absentee father and has just found out that he has cancer. As the man tells his son about this plucky little girl, he slowly reveals more about himself: Overwhelmed by the responsibility of fatherhood, he took the easy way out and left his wife and little boy 20 years ago to pursue professional success. Now he is left wondering if it's too late to forge a relationship with his son, who seems to be his opposite in every way - prizing happiness over money, surrounded by loving friends in a cozy town where he feels right at home.

Face to face with the idea that something is missing, the man is given the unexpected chance to do something selfless that could change the destiny of the little girl in the hospital bed. But before he can make the deal of a lifetime, he needs to find out what his own life has actually been worth in the eyes of his son. And so, he seeks him out and tells him this story Written with Fredrik Backman's signature humor, compassion, and "knack for weaving tales that are believable and fanciful" St. Even though The Deal of a Lifetime is an incredibly short novella really a standalone short story , it did for me exactly what A Man Called Ove did.

It touched my heart, soul, and mind.

The Deal of a Lifetime is about a highly ambitious man whose one aim in life is money, because money is power. This means that his wife and son were badly neglected, both while the marriage was still intact, and after.

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The man never understood his son even as the child grew up. The son loved his home town.

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He talked about things like happiness and nostalgia. The son had no interest in money as the currency of power. The son, in fact, had no interest in power.

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So the man and his son were apart, living separate lives, each to his own. And then, at the age of 45, the man got a rare kind of cancer. That sent him to the hospital where he observed a small girl and her mother playing in the family room. The mother and all the adults around the child spent a lot of time on games and stories of what the girl would do when she grew up.

The little girl participated in these games and stories to make her mother and the other adults in her life feel better. To give them hope that she would, indeed, grow up. She had seen the woman in the grey sweater, the one who carried a clipboard and walked unseen into hospital rooms. The little girl knew her name was on that clipboard.