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Title	:	The Solitaire Mystery
Author	:	Jostein Gaarder
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	First Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 309 pages
Published	:	June 1st 1996 by Farrar Straus & Giroux (first published 1990)
Categories	:	Fiction. Philosophy. Fantasy. Young Adult. Mystery. Novels

The Solitaire Mystery Hardcover | Pages: 309 pages

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Hans Thomas and his father set out on a car trip through Europe, from Norway to Greece—the birthplace of philosophy—in search of Hans Thomas's mother, who left them many years earlier. On the way, Hans Thomas receives a mysterious miniature book—the fantastic memoir of a sailor shipwrecked in 1842 on a strange island where a deck of cards come to life. Structured as a deck of cards—each chapter is one in the deck—"The Solitaire Mystery" weaves together fantasy and reality, fairy tales and family history. Full of questions about the meaning of life, it will spur its listeners to reexamine their own.

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Original Title:	Kabalmysteriet
ISBN:	0374266514 (ISBN13: 9780374266516)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Hans Thomas, Frode, Speelkaarten, pa
Literary Awards:	دار المنى, Norwegian Critics Prize for Children's Literature (Kritikerprisen for beste barne- og ungdomsbok) (1990)

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Kabalmysteriet = The Solitaire Mystery, Jostein GaarderThe Solitaire Mystery (Norwegian: Kabalmysteriet) is a 1990 fantasy novel by Jostein Gaarder, the Norwegian author of the best-selling Sophie's World. Its main target audience is young adults, but the themes of the book transcend any age group. The Solitaire Mystery, as with Sophie's World, has a philosophical content but, unlike Sophie's World, it does not explicitly mention philosophers and theories; thus readers of the book may be unaware

A joker is a little fool who is different from everyone else. He's not a club, diamond, heart, or spade. He's not an eight or a nine, a king or a jack. He is an outsider. He is placed in the same pack as the other cards, but he doesn't belong there. Therefore, he can be removed without anybody missing him.

(English title: The Solitaire Mystery)Re-read this in preparation for my upcoming project on Jostein Gaarder in my last year of university!It was even better than I remember it. An amazing story full of wonder and philosophy, beautiful language and devices that will make you question the world we live in.It was also very refreshing to read something in Norwegian, as I usually read in English these days.Gaarder remains one of my all-time favourite authors and I cannot wait to properly investigate

This is not the first Gaarder book I have read, but this is the very first book that I started understanding his philosophy, on lives, on religion and ultimately, on the universe.I like this book very much. It opened me to a whole new way of looking at the world and at ourselves. It in some extent persuaded me to take philosophy as a breadth subject in uni. We are more than just ourselves, we are the consciousness of the universe. However, we are just too damn busy doing the things that we do

...God is sitting in heaven laughing because people don't believe in him.. Jostein Gaarder cleverly incorporates fantasy , philosophy, fairy tale and family history in this book thus making it a fantastic read!!!

4.5 Golden StarsI remember I love this (more than others) when I read Philosophical novels 11 years ago. & yep this one is my favourite one in philosophy novels.it was philosophy & kind of fiction. & there's sentences we should think about it seriously. it is beautiful.😍✌

Like all Jostein Gaarder's books - the book is filled with interesting thoughts from the world of ideas.:) It makes you question your existence - questioning not laced with doubt but with wonder at the magnificence and utter wonder of this world. While reading the book - I was all at once the Joker who sees too much and too deeply, the Ace of Hearts who always has this habit of losing herself, Frode (the Master) who fills his mind with fantasies and dreams that would soon become reality. It was