Jostein Gaarder

ENA ΓPAMMA KAI MIA ΠEPIEPΓH EIΔHΣH, MIA ΠAPAΞENH ΓYNAIKA ΠOY EMΦANIZETAI ΞAΦNIKA ΠANTOY KI ENA AINIΓMATIKO BIBΛIO XΩPIΣ ΣYΓΓPAΦEA KANOYN TH ΦANTAΣIA TOY NIΛΣ KAI THΣ MΠEPIT NA KAΛΠAZEI. ΣYNΔEONTAI OΛA AYTA METAΞY TOYΣ H EINAI AΠΛEΣ ΣYMΠTΩΣEIΣ; OI ΔYO TOYΣ APXIZOYN MIA ΘAPPAΛEA EPEYNA KAI ANTAΛΛAΣΣOYN TAXYΔPOMIKΩΣ …

From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, 'A masterful mixture of fantasy and reality...a simply wonderful read' SHE.Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he notices an amulet of amber around her neck, the same trinket he had given his own lost child, who was swept away …

A playful and inventive work from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD. A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St Augustine to a woman he renounced …

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 …