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The Solitaire Mystery: A Novel About Family and Destiny

The Solitaire Mystery: A Novel About Family and Destiny

by Jostein Gaarder, Sarah Jane Hails
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About this book

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 come to life. 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.

Book Details

ISBN13 9780374266516
ISBN10 0374266514
Series/Work OL922370W View on OpenLibrary
Language ENG
Created At January 30, 2025
Updated At January 30, 2025
Last OL update January 18, 2025

Subjects

Chang pian xiao shuo Children: Grades 2-3 Families Family Fantasie Fantasy fiction Fiction Fiction, mystery & detective, general Jugendbuch Literatura norueguesa New York Times reviewed Norway, fiction Phantasie Philosophie Romance Sohn Thomas, hans (fictitious character), fiction Vater

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