Book 111 - "The Solitaire Mystery" by Jostein Gaarder
Thursday, November 17th, 2005 08:34![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kittiwakeThe sandcastle isn't the most important thing. What is most important is the image of the sandcastle which the child had pictured before it started to build. Why do you think the child knocks the castle down as soon as it is finished?
A story of shipwrecked sailors, playing cards and calendars, of soldiers and bakers, of missing parents and alcoholic fathers, of grandfathers and grandsons re-united, of dwarves and jokers, of goldfish and rainbow fizz. It took me a while to get into this philosophical novel from the author of "Sophie's World", but once I did I found it fascinating.
A story of shipwrecked sailors, playing cards and calendars, of soldiers and bakers, of missing parents and alcoholic fathers, of grandfathers and grandsons re-united, of dwarves and jokers, of goldfish and rainbow fizz. It took me a while to get into this philosophical novel from the author of "Sophie's World", but once I did I found it fascinating.
