The solitaire mystery
by Jostein Gaarder
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In The Solitaire Mystery, Hans Thomas and his father set out on a car trip through Europe, from Norway to Greece - the birthplace of philosophy - in search of Hans Thomas's mother, who left them many years earlier. On the way, Hans Thomas receives a mysterious miniature book - the fantastic memoir of a sailor shipwrecked in 1842 on a strange island where a deck of cards has come to life. But how do these stories fit together? Who is the little man who keeps cropping up on their trip?
And why must Hans Thomas learn about the distant past before he can understand his mother's more recent disappearance? Structured as a deck of cards - each chapter is one card in the deck - The Solitaire Mystery weaves together fantasy and reality, fairy tales and family history. Full of questions about the meaning of life, it will spur its readers to reexamine their own.
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Vater, Sohn, Fantasie, Philosophie, Jugendbuch, Phantasie, Fiction, Families, Family, Children: Grades 2-3, Literatura norueguesa, Romance, New York Times reviewed, Fantasy fiction, Fiction, mystery & detective, general, Norway, fiction, Thomas, hans (fictitious character), fiction, Chang pian xiao shuoPeople
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Arendal (Norway), Venice (Italy), Switzerland, Athens (Greece), Piraeus (Greece), Ákra Soúnion (Greece), Delphi (Ancient city)Times
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The Solitaire Mystery
March 2001, Orion, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
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in English
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The Solitaire Mystery: a novel about family and destiny
November 1, 1997, Berkley Trade
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042515999X 9780425159996
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Das Kartengeheimnis
1995, Büchergilde Gutenberg
Hardcover
in German
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3763244794 9783763244799
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Hans Thomas og faren legger ut på blir en reise helt utenom det vanlige. Hans Thomas leser i hemmelighet den lille boka han har fått av en gammel baker, og alle skikkelsene som dukker opp underveis viser seg å ha overraskende forbindelser med hans eget liv. Kabalmysteriet er en erkjennelse av at livet er for kort til å ikke lete fram sitt trumfkort, som kanskje ikke alltid er den kyniske jokeren men heller den som sitter og leker med resten av stokken, mennesket med det undrende, vidåpne barnesinnet. "Men også jeg syntes jeg gjennomskua skjebnen nå takket være den lange historien jeg hadde lest i bolleboka," forteller Hans Thomas. Og kanskje klarer du det også, etter å ha lest Kabalmysteriet.
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