The Orange Girl

Resumen del libro

'My father died eleven years ago. I was only four then. I never thought I'd hear from him again, but now we're writing a book together' To Georg Roed, his father is no more than a shadow, a distant memory.

But then one day his grandmother discovers some pages stuffed into the lining of an old red pushchair. The pages are a letter to Georg, written just before his father died, and a story, 'The Orange Girl'. But 'The Orange Girl' is no ordinary story - it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father's youth.

One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle, clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled forward, sending the oranges flying in all directions. The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg's father with arms full of oranges.

Now, from beyond the grave, he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity.

Biografía del autor

Jostein Gaarder (Oslo, 1952) fue profesor de Filosofía y de Historia de las Ideas en un instituto de Bergen durante diez años. En 1986 empezó a publicar libros, y en 1990 recibió el Premio de la Crítica y el Premio literario del Ministerio de Cultura noruegos por su novela x{0026}lt;em El misterio del solitariox{0026}lt;/em (Siruela, 1995). Pero fue x{0026}lt;em El mundo de Sofíax{0026}lt;/em (Siruela, 1994) la obra que se convirtió en un auténtico x{0026}lt;em best-sellerx{0026}lt;/em mundial e hizo de su autor una celebridad internacional. Gaarder creó la Fundación Sofía, cuyo premio anual dotó económicamente a la mejor labor innovadora a favor del medioambiente y el desarrollo.