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An edition of Kabalmysteriet (1990)

The solitaire mystery

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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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Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Language
English
Pages
309

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Subjects

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 shuo

People

Sokrates

Places

Arendal (Norway), Venice (Italy), Switzerland, Athens (Greece), Piraeus (Greece), Ákra Soúnion (Greece), Delphi (Ancient city)

Times

1981-1990
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The Solitaire Mystery
November 2003, Farrar Straus Giroux
in English
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The Solitaire Mystery
March 2001, Orion, Orion Publishing Group, Limited
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Das Kartengeheimnis
November 1, 2001, dtv
Paperback in German - Ungekürzte Taschenbuchausgabe
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The Solitaire Mystery
September 2000, Phoenix Press
Paperback in English - New Ed edition
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Das Kartengeheimnis
1999-07, Deutscher Taschenbuch Verlag
Taschenbuch in German - 4. Auflage
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Kabalmysteriet
1998, Aschehoug
in Norwegian
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The solitaire mystery
1997, Phoenix
in English
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Zhi pai de mi mi
1997, Kun lun chu ban she
in Chinese - Di 1 ban
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The Solitaire Mystery: a novel about family and destiny
November 1, 1997, Berkley Trade
in English
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Kabalmysteriet
1996, Aschehoug
in Norwegian
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The Solitaire Mystery (Bookcassette(r) Edition)
July 1, 1996, Bookcassette
Audio cassette in English
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The solitaire mystery
1996, Farrar, Straus and Giroux
in English
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Le mystère de la patience
1996, France loisirs
in French
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Das Kartengeheimnis.
February 1, 1995, Carl Hanser
Hardcover in German
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Das Kartengeheimnis
1995, Büchergilde Gutenberg
Hardcover in German - Lizensierte Buchgemeinschaftsausgabe
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Kabalmysteriet
1990, Aschehoug
Paperback in Norwegian

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Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
839.8/2374
Library of Congress
PT8951.17.A17 K313 1996, PT8951.17.A17K313

The Physical Object

Pagination
x, 309 p. ;
Number of pages
309

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL969700M
Internet Archive
solitairemystery00gaar
ISBN 10
0374266514
LCCN
96006284
OCLC/WorldCat
34285212
Library Thing
1251580
Goodreads
48318

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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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