In an old fairy story Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her he tices 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 vel 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 kwn 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Orion Publishing Co, Weidenfeld & Nicolson
brand
Orion Publishing Group
GTIN
9780297829232
ISBN-10
0297829238
ISBN-13
9780297829232
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96642434
Product Key Features
Author
Jostein Gaarder
Format
Hardback
Language
English
Topic
General & Literary Fiction
Genre
General & Literary Fiction
Dimensions
Weight
376g
Depth
26 mm
Height
208mm
Width
139mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
London
Spine
26mm
Literary Period/Movement
0297829238
Audience
General
Age Level
Adult
Author Biography
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.