Orange girl

Author: Jostein Gaarder
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Publish Date: 2004-07-01
Features: This book includes everything sensitive young people care about: life, love, and death. — K.Muller-Roselius, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (October 16, 2003). Co-recommended by renowned writers Yu Qiyu, Yu Hua, Mo Yan, and Bi Shushmin. Bestselling author Jostein Gaarder, the author of Sophie's World, presents his 2004 newest work. Purchased by 34 countries and regions, translated into 29 languages, and with cumulative sales of over 30,000,000 copies worldwide for Sophie's World. This book is the 2003 newest work by the world-renowned bestselling author and the author of Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder. It is also the author's novel centered on love and life. The story is captivating, the prose fresh, and life's wisdom conveyed between the lines. At the age of four, George lost his father. His memories of him are hazy—was he the stranger's face in an old photograph, or the broad shoulders holding him on the balcony while watching stars one summer night years ago? Over a decade later, while sorting through old toys, George's grandmother discovers a handwritten letter from his father. In the letter, the father tells George a touching story—a story about tangerines, about the color orange, about love, and about sunlight, shadows, flowing clouds, death, and parting. It's a secret as vast as the sky, leaving the fifteen-year-old George utterly astonished. — It was an extraordinary letter that transcended time and space, yet it was also a letter brimming with profound depth. Life and death, togetherness and separation, hope and despair, illusion and reality, time and space—how would George choose?