The Solitaire Mystery - Hardcover

Gaarder, Jostein

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1897580096 ISBN 13: 9781897580097

Publisher: Phoenix House, 1996

Synopsis

While taking a car trip through Europe with his father in search of his long-lost mother, a mysterious miniature book about a sailor shipwrecked on a strange island on which a deck of cards has come to life holds the clues to understanding the disappearance of Hans Thomas's mother many years before.

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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.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: Norwegian

About this edition

• Publisher: Phoenix House
• Publication date: 1996
• ISBN 10: 1897580096
• ISBN 13: 9781897580097
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352