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 in a torrent some sixteen years earlier.
This tale is narrated by Petter, a precocious child and fantasist, and perhaps Jostein Gaarder's most intriguing character since Sophie. As an adult, Petter makes his living selling stories and ideas to professionals suffering from writer's block. But as Petter sits spinning his tales, he finds himself in a trap of his own making.
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 Cecelia and her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life and prepares for her death, she changes subtly, in herself and in her relationships with her family.
Jostein Gaarder is a profoundly optimistic writer, who writes about death with wisdom, compassion and an enquiring mind. THROUGH A GLASS DARKLY will not only bring comfort to the bereaved. It will move and amaze everyone who reads it.
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 for chastity? VITA BREVIS is both an entrancing human document and a fascinating insight into the life and philosophy of St.Augustine. Gaarder's interpretation of Floria's letter is as playful, inventive and questioning as SOPHIE'S WORLD.
From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder, author of modern classic Sophie's World, comes a novel about loneliness and the power of words
Jakop is a lonely man.
Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his identity in a web of improbable lies.
As his addiction spirals out of control, he is forced to reconcile his love of language and stories with the ever more urgent need for human connection.
An Unreliable Man is a moving and thought-provoking novel about loneliness and truth, about seeking a place in the world, and about how storytelling gives our lives meaning.
Decades after his global bestseller Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder has written a poignant and funny book for our times - full of life and hope.
Praise for Sophie's World
'A TOUR DE FORCE' Time
'EXTRAORDINARY' Newsweek
'A UNIQUE POPULAR CLASSIC' The Times
'A SIMPLY WONDERFUL, IRRESISTIBLE BOOK' Daily Telegraph
Twelve-year-old Hans Thomas lives alone with his father, a man who likes to give his son lessons about life and has a penchant for philosophy. Hans Thomas' mother left when he was four (to 'find' herself) and the story begins when father and son set off on a trip to Greece, where she now lives, to try to persuade her to come home. En route, in Switzerland, Hans Thomas is given a magnifying glass by a dwarf at a petrol station, and the next day he finds a tiny book in his bread roll which can only be read with a magnifying glass. How did the book come to be there? Why does the dwarf keep showing up? It is all very perplexing and Hans Thomas has enough to cope with, with the daunting prospect of seeing his mother. Now his journey has turned into an encounter with the unfathomable...or does it all have a logical explanation?
« Qui es-tu ? »Un jour, Sophie reçoit une lettre sur laquelle est inscrite cette intrigante question. Puis en arrive une seconde : « D'où vient le monde ? »De question en question et de surprise en surprise, la jeune fille est propulsée dans une aventure où elle découvre les principales figures de la philosophie occidentale, et surtout elle-même !Zabus et Nicoby réinventent en une bande dessinée pleine d'humour le roman philosophique de Jostein Gaarder, une oeuvre culte qui a déjà conquis des dizaines de millions de lecteurs dans le monde.
" Une adaptation réussie, signée par deux auteurs chevronnés." Philosophie Magazine
" La philosophie à la portée de tous [...] ; encore plus accessible que le roman [...] tout parent qui a un enfant en terminale doit se précipiter à la librairie..." Olivia de Lamberterie - Télématin
" Nicoby et Vincent Zabus réinventent subtilement le célèbre roman philosophique de l'écrivain norvégien Jostein Gaarder avec cette bande dessinée réjouissante. Un voyage absolument passionnant dans le monde de Sophie. " Page des Libraires
Après avoir découvert les origines de la philosophie en compagnie d'Alberto, Sophie poursuit et achève son exploration des principaux courants de la pensée occidentale.
Cette quête aussi philosophique qu'initiatique l'amène à dépasser sa condition et à accéder au libre arbitre... mais surtout à découvrir où se cachait sa liberté !
Zabus et Nicoby concluent avec toujours autant d'humour et de finesse leur réinvention en bande dessinée du roman philosophique culte, et aux dizaines de milliers de lecteurs dans le monde, écrit par Jostein Gaarder.
