num_pages: 352
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Solitaire Mystery
titlecomplete: The Solitaire Mystery
characters: Speelkaarten, pa, Frode, Hans Thomas
genres: Magical Realism, Fantasy, Mystery, Philosophy, Young Adult, Novels, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 23606
awards: name: دار المنى, awardedAt: 631180800000
name: Norwegian Critics Prize for Children's Literature (Kritikerprisen for beste barne- og ungdomsbok), awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Premi Protagonista Jove
category: Categoria 16-17 anys
publisher: Orion