Twice in a Lifetime

ISBN: 1905583362

Author: Borg

Condition: New

About the Author Ágúst Borgór Sverrisson is the author of five collections of short stories and a novel in his native Icelandic. He is a former journalist, copywriter, and translator as well as a recognized blogger and commentator in Iceland on literature and politics. María Helga Gumundsdóttir is a translator and proofreader. Anna Benassi is a translator who specializes in business, economics, and legal documents. Product Description Offering an intricate study in the precariousness of life, this short story collection inspects the coincidences that make life so unstable and fragile. A child steals cash from his father for a pretend-money game and unwittingly throws his brothers entire life off balance; a man has a one-night stand with a married woman and only realizes the consequences years later; a successful businessman tries to scheme his way out of a paternity test by offering his less fortunate brother a deal he cannot refuse. Yet amid the anonymity of urban life, random accidents, and mistaken identities, there can also be found an abiding faith in the unexpected gifts that chance throws up: synchronicities, coincidences, moments in time that offer fresh secrets, and, occasionally, even a second chance. Review "The stories in this collection brilliantly draw a world through brief details and coincidence."  -Manchester Review "A splendid collection. . . . Sverrisson is a great author who cunningly masters the spare form of the short story."  -Páll Baldvin Baldvinsson, Icelandic journalist and literary critic