Fredrik Backman's short stories are imbued with the same gentle humor and warmth as his best-selling "full-length" novels, which have now been published in forty-three countries. They are modern parables on eternal themes or - if you prefer - fairy tales for adults. Backman is true to himself - he again speaks in simple words about the most important things: the meaning of life, death, merciless time and human memory.
"The Deal of a Lifetime" is a story about what you are willing to sacrifice to save someone else's life. When not only your future is at stake, but also your past. Not only the places you are heading to, but also the traces you have already left behind. For whom are you willing to give it all up?
In the short story "And Every Morning the Road Home Becomes Longer" Backman writes about what it is like to lose your memory before you live, and we, the rest, are faced with an incomprehensible way of living in separation from them, when they are still here and no longer here.
"Sebastian and the Troll" is a poignant novella by Backman, a fairy tale for adults, a short story of overwhelming emotional power. It is a story about childhood fragility and vulnerability, broken laughter, stuffy glass balls and childhood fears.
Author: Fredrik Backman
Translation: Chevkina Ekaterina Maksimovna
Year of release: 2020
Publisher: Sindbad
Pages: 224
Cover type: Hardcover
Dimensions: 175x135x22 mm
ISBN: 978-5-00131-167-6