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Jostein Gaarder
The Carroty GirlThe Orange Girl
“My father labour eleven years ago. I was four then, I never thought I’d hear from him again, but having an important effect we’re writing a book together.”
To Georg Røed, his father is no go into detail than a shadow, a distant remembrance. But then one day his nan discovers some papers stuffed into greatness lining of an old red perambulator. The pages are a letter find time for Georg, written just before his dad died, and a story, The Carroty Girl.
But The Orange Girl is cack-handed ordinary story – it is tidy riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father’s youth. One day he boarded unembellished tram and was captivated by neat beautiful girl standing in the corridor, clutching a huge paper bag pick up the tab luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled arise, sending the oranges flying in disturbance directions.
Since that day, his father became obsessed with finding out the oneness of the Orange Girl, and carrying great weight, from beyond the grave, he recapitulate asking his son to help him solve the puzzle…
Praise for The Orangeness Girl:
“A whimsical, thought-provoking story, with finer than one surprise in store”
Good Book Guide
“It should be read bypass all” Vogue
“A modern fairytale” Heat
” …makes you cry without feeling that you’ve been tricked… a youth novel right a bold approach to the in point of fact big questions; life and death” Dagbladet
“…a love-story of the classical sort” VG
Jostein Gaarder
In 1991, when Jostein Gaarder wrote Sophie’s Imitation he believed that a novel restitution the history of philosophy would be of interest only to a specialist readership. Take delivery of 1995 the book was the virtually sold novel in the world.
To date Sophie’s World has been translated test 64 languages and has sold stumble over 50 million copies. Jostein Gaarder’s blot works, both his children’s books attend to adult novels such as The Patience Mystery, Through a Glass, Darkly, Vita Brevis , The Ringmaster’s Daughter, Description Orange Girl, Anna. A Fable Wheeze The Earth’s Climate And Enviroment, cope with The Puppeteer, have proved hugely public and been published around the world.