The Solitaire Mystery: a novel about family and destiny - Softcover

Gaarder, Jostein

Softcover

ISBN 10: 042515999X ISBN 13: 9780425159996

Publisher: Berkley Trade, 1997

Synopsis

The author of the best-selling Sophie's World follows a twelve-year-old boy as he scours Europe with his father for his missing mother, carrying a miniature, magic storybook that may help solve her disappearance. Reprint.

About this title

Review:

Jostein Gaarder had an unlikely international success with Sophie's World, a novelized exploration of western philosophy through the eyes of a young girl. This is an earlier work, translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Jane Hails. This fable-like story dabbles in philosophy too, though more lightly. It tells of a Norwegian boy traveling across Europe with his calm and reflective father in search of his long lost mother. The boy finds a tiny manuscript that reveals the secret of a magic deck of cards that can tell the future.

About the Author:

Jostein Gaarder, born in 1952 in Norway, taught philosophy for many years before becoming a novelist. He lives with his family in Oslo.

About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Trade
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 042515999X
• ISBN 13: 9780425159996
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 336