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What if you hadn't made this one decision, but this completely different one? What if you had defied expectations? And: wouldn't it be nice if you could experience a life on a trial basis before actually living it?

Sometimes we fear that we have been cowards, hesitated too long and missed out on something that would have given us a better self, greater happiness and better-looking and funnier pets and partners. Saša Stanišić's new stories are dedicated to this constant pondering at the crossroads of our biography, where we could have taken a more surprising path, made an unusual choice or told a lie. Like the cleaner who decides to finally take life into her own hands with a brush made of goat hair in her hand. Like the German-Bosnian writer who travels to Heligoland for the first time, only to realise that he has already been to Heligoland. Just like the father, who is prepared to cheat in order to finally win against his eight-year-old son in Memory ...