Contributions

  • Hails, Sarah Jane. - Contributor

Publication

1996 - Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, New York (State)

Language

English

Word Count

77,250 words, Guess

Page Count

309 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • LibraryThing1251580
  • Goodreads48318

Classifications

  • DDC839.8/2374
  • LCCPT8951.17.A17 K313 1996

Description

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.

Description

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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