The Ringmaster's Daughter by Jostein Gaarder

The Ringmaster's Daughter by Jostein Gaarder

In an old fairy story Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her he notices an amulet of amber around her neck, the same trinket he had given his own lost child, swept away in a torrent some sixteen years earlier. The theme of a father finding a long-lost daughter runs through this novel which is told by Petter, a precocious child and fantasist - a Norwegian Billy Liar. Petter's magical interior world contains Metre Man, a midget with a green felt cap and a bamboo cane; Metre Man runs his life and urges him to do things. As an adult, Petter's incredible imagination leads him to become a ghost writer known only as The Spider but he become involves in a sequence of literary deceits which are brought to a head at the Bologna Bookfair at the same time as events conspire to bring him face to face with his own long-lost daughter.

So far we've had reviews in the TLS and SCOTLAND ON SUNDAY together with thefollowing: 'Gaarder is back on form.. there is intriguing food for thought here'THE TIMES 'A masterful mixture of fantasy and reality...... a simply wonderful read.'SHE MAGAZINE 'Petter's big problem is that he cannot distinguishbetween fantasy and reality, which gives rise to the best one-paragraph explanation of so-called received memore syndrome that you are ever likely to read.'Keith Bruce, THE HERALD 'THE RINGMASTER'S DAUGHTER confirms his status as one of Scandinavia's finest literary exports and as a novelist and storyteller

Jostein Gaarder, who was a teacher for many years before he began to write full-time, lives in Oslo with his wife. They have two grown-up sons.

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ISBN 13	9780297829232
ISBN 10	0297829238
Title	The Ringmaster's Daughter
Author	Jostein Gaarder
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	Orion Publishing Co
Year published	2002-10-10
Number of pages	304
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