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
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- PublisherPhoenix House
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 1897580096
- ISBN 13 9781897580097
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages352
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