About the book: year / Fredrik Backman's short stories are imbued with the same gentle humor and warmth as his “full-length” best-selling novels, published today in forty-three countries. These are modern parables on eternal themes or, if you like, a kind of fairy tale for adults. Backman is true to himself - he again speaks in simple words about the most important things: the meaning of life, death, ruthless 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. For whom are you ready to give up all this? In the short story “And every morning the road home gets longer and longer,” Backman writes about what it’s like to lose memory before life, and we, those left, have to wonder how to live apart from them, when they are still here and no longer here. “Sebastian and the Troll” is a poignant novella by Buckman, a fairy tale for adults, a small story of knock-down emotional power. This is a story about children's fragility and vulnerability, broken laughter, stuffy glass balls and children's fears..