Author: Gaarder, Jostein
Title: Maya
Description: Mint condition. Phoenix House, 2000. First UK edition. Blue hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(a couple of small nicks and creases on the edges of the Dj cover), both in mint condition. Translated by James Anderson. The book is new with a ink mark and light shelf wear on the outer edge of the pages, small pencil mark impression on the edge of the first blank page of the book. Price un-clipped. 310pp. Product Description: 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 and Jose, who are absorbed in their love for each other. Their stories are so strewn with mysteries and illusions that it is hard to say where one ends and the next begins, or if the accounts the characters give of themselves can be believed. Why does Ana bear such a close resemblance to the model for Goya's famous Maja paintings? What is the significance of the Joker as he steps out of his pack of cards? As the action moves from Fiji to Spain, from the present to the past, unfolding further stories within the stories, the novel reveals an astonishing richness and complexity. Maya debates and unravels the questions that give meaning to the lives of the characters - and to our own. At the same time it explores our ideas of the necessity for love. As bold and imaginative in its sweep as Sophie's World, it shows again that Jostein Gaarder's unique and special gift is to make us wonder at the awe-inspiring mystery of the universe. Fine/Fine. ISBN: 9781861591838

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