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The Orange Girl

By Jostein Gaarder

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| eBook | 9780297864028

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'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together 'To Georg Roed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pContinue

'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together 'To Georg Roed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory. But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle, clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled forward, sending the oranges flying in all directions. The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg's father with arms full of oranges. Now, from beyond the grave, he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity.

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    A touching letter of a dead father to his son, on living, on falling in love, and in keeping a sense of wonder about one's self in even the most mundane. Starts out as a mystery to be unravelled of an Orange Girl (a girl who his father meets in his youth, yes, carrying a bag of oranges) ... you wond ... (continue)

    A touching letter of a dead father to his son, on living, on falling in love, and in keeping a sense of wonder about one's self in even the most mundane. Starts out as a mystery to be unravelled of an Orange Girl (a girl who his father meets in his youth, yes, carrying a bag of oranges) ... you wonder who she is .. until you realize that this actually the re-telling of the boy's parent's love story. Lovingly told, the father's story is a slowly melded with the son's own story. It poses some very real even intimate, and hard to answer, philosophical questions about living.

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    guiltlessreader aka screamingbanshee said on Jan 9, 2010 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback

  • If we do have a before-life and an after-life, which may last for millions of years, do you prefer to spend a lifetime on this planet, while you wouldn't know what is going to happen with you or knowing that it causes a lot of pain when you are to leave everything behind when your time on this plane ... (continue)

    If we do have a before-life and an after-life, which may last for millions of years, do you prefer to spend a lifetime on this planet, while you wouldn't know what is going to happen with you or knowing that it causes a lot of pain when you are to leave everything behind when your time on this planet ends?

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    Carrie said on Oct 22, 2006 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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