ISBN: 1-85799-865-0
Godina izdanja: 2000
Jezik: Engleski
Autor: Strani

THE SOLITAIRE MYSTERY by Jostein Gaarder,
Illustrations by Hilda Kramer
Translated by Sarah Jane Hails

This paperback edition published in 1997 by Phoenix an imprint of Orion Books Ltd, Reissued 2000. Pages 319

The sides turned a little yellow from standing. The book is in excellent condition, without underlining, the sheets are firmly joined.
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. En route, in Switzerland, Hans Thomas is given a magnifying glass by a dwarf at a petrol station, and the next day he finds mysterious miniature book—the fantastic memoir of a sailor shipwrecked in 1842 on a strange island where a deck of cards come to life. How did the book come to be there? Why does the dwarf keep showing up? It is all very perplexing and Hans Thomas has enough to cope with, with the daunting prospect of seeing his mother. Now his journey has turned into an encounter with the unfathomable...or does it all have a logical explanation?
Structured as a deck of cards—each chapter is one 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 listeners to reexamine their own. Structured as a deck of cards—each chapter is one 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 listeners to reexamine their own.