This relationship is explored both inside and outside the novel, in its account of the extraordinary fate of Kristin's Caravaggio and in Olafsson's ambivalent acknowledgments.
By 1910, Martha was the sole survivor, an extraordinary fate for a bird whose ancestors had, in Audubon's words, sounded — from a distance!
By 1910, Martha was the sole survivor, an extraordinary fate for a bird whose ancestors had, in Audubon's words, sounded from a distance!—like "a hard gale at sea, passing through the rigging of a close-reefed vessel".
Back and forth over three decades, the two principal characters of Chaon's first novel -- half brothers, we soon perceive -- suffer the extraordinary fates that Chaon devises for otherwise ordinary people, whose families are attenuated and dispersed but never lose the unseen links that attach them, consciously or not, to one another.
At the end of the day, according to Smithsonian Magazine, Napoleon - that morning convinced his army had the right stuff to win -- wrote off his loss as "a combination of extraordinary fates".
The next day, in an extraordinary twist of fate, Hemant Karkare was killed in the Mumbai Attacks.
Around the same time, in one of those extraordinary quirks of fate, his son, Michael, after years of ambivalence, had determined to find his father.
Too many tragedies and extraordinary turns of fate have befallen the house for it to entertain anything so deathless and mundane as normality.
(In an extraordinary twist of fate, he had been a close friend of Ms Bachelet's father, a fellow air-force general who died of a heart attack after being imprisoned and tortured by the dictatorship in 1973).Seething in SantiagoMr Piñera has struggled to deal with demands for a fairer society, symbolised by large student protests that have persisted throughout his government.
It was an extraordinary twist of fate, as his wife, also a flight attendant, had switched from Malaysian jet MH370 which vanished en route from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing on 8 March with 239 passengers on board, according to a report in The Malaysian Insider.
On the other side of the Atlantic, the US Bureau for Labour Statistics provides some extraordinary statistics on the fate of 130 million workers in 2010.
