The Castle in the Pyrenees
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The author of the massively successful Sophie's World returns with a love story and a novel of ideas, exploring the place of human consciousness in the universe Through five intense years in the 1970s, Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together, then they suddenly parted ways, for reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place they both have fond memories from, and their meeting turns out to be fateful. But is it purely coincidental that they meet at that particular spot at that particular time? Over a couple of weeks that summer they write emails to each other, and it becomes clear that they have been living with very different interpretations of their shared past. This intimate love story of rediscovery explores the question: can science explain everything, or does some invisible force influence our lives?
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Jostein Gaarder is the author of Maya, The Orange Girl, The Ringmaster's Daughter, The Solitaire Mystery, and Sophie's World, which has sold more than 30 million copies worldwide.
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"What do you believe about the things to which you don't know the answers? This is the central question in Jostein Gaarder's new novel. . . . Gaarder rehearses his characters' positions compellingly and their plight is moving." —Times Literary Supplement"First, think a beginner's guide to philosophy . . . Next, imagine a fantasy novel—something like a modern-day version of Through the Looking Glass. Meld these disparate genres, and what do you get? Well, what you get is an improbable international bestseller . . . [A] tour de force."—Time on Sophie's World
