Jostein Gaarder

Sofies verden er en roman skrevet af den norske forfatter Jostein Gaarder og udgivet i 1991. Romanen handler om pigen Sofie, der på mystisk vis pludselig modtager breve om kendte filosofiske spørgsmål. Snart modtager hun brev efter brev om filosofiens historie, startende med naturfilosoffer, myter og gammel nordisk …

Kabalemysteriet er en roman fra 1990 af den norske forfatter Jostein Gaarder. Her møder man Hans Thomas, som sammen med sin far kører til Athen for at finde sin mor. På turen holder de jævnlige rygepauser for farens skyld og her diskuteres store ting som verdens oprindelse såvel som rumvæseners eksistens. Undervejs på …

THE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY transcends all barriers. We all love a beadtime story and here we have a philosophical meditation wrapped in the simple clothes of a journey across Europe to Bethlehem. The qualities of wonder and enquiry that readers loved in SOPHIE'S WORLD are as strong as ever in this beautiful and mysterious …

Conversations about life and death, between a girl and an angel.It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a spirited and engaging series of conversations between …

A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian evolutionary biologist estranged from his wife Vera; and an enigmatic Spanish couple, Ana …

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 …