Manfred Jurgensen was born between Denmark and Germany in the coastal border town of Flensburg in 1940, a midnight child . He has always been sensitive to boundaries and what s beyond the borders, emotionally and physically. He has chosen to reveal his life history - to a very large extent dominated by World War II and its aftermath - in a highly original and unusual form. The protagonist and his lifetime experiences are wrapped within a semi-fictional presentation that he suggests might be called autofiction , or perhaps a bio-novel . Throughout the narrative he philosophises about the nature of coincidence as a life-force.