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The Diagnosis

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Jostein Gaarder (13 items)
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Published 15 years, 3 months ago 1 comment

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Description: The short stories in this collection centre on classic humanistic thinking about man's place in the world, with reference to people in life's key phases: Death, love, art and catastrophe. The two frame stories are science-fiction-style tales with a philosophical perspective, while the remainder are consummately crafted intellectual stories in the shape of brief, poetically charged sketches. The author finds his characters beside a lake. They are by no means easy to handle and he even finds himself having to struggle with personalities of his own making. But who, exactly, is the author? And who are these characters? Are they livi ... (more)
Manufacturer: Aschehoug Children and Young Adults
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