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GAARDER, JOSTEIN - The Solitaire Mystery
London, Phoenix House. 1996, First Edition. (ISBN: 1897580096). Hard Cover, 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Ill.: Kramer, Hilda. A Fine unmarked copy with Fine dustjacket which is not price clipped. Translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Jane Hails. The Norwegian author's second work to be published in English, is of a boy and his father on a journey from Norway to Greece, in search of the boy's mother. Of a dwarf who gives the boy a magnifying glass, a baker who gives him a bun, a miniature book that tells the story of a sailor shipwrecked on a desert island in 1790, a pack of playing cards with a life of their own and a joker who looks too deeply and too much. These are the ingredients in this story within a story, in which fantasy and reality, the present and the past, are brilliantly mixed. Structured in 52 chapters like a pack of cards. D4D. Fine/Fine.
GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 10.17 | JP¥ 1583] Booknumber: 004103
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GBP 8.00 [Appr.: EURO 9.5 US$ 10.17 | JP¥ 1583] Booknumber: 004103
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