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| Original Title: | I et speil, i en gåte |
| ISBN: | 1858817692 (ISBN13: 9781858817699) |
| Edition Language: | English |
Jostein Gaarder
Paperback | Pages: 176 pages Rating: 3.8 | 6660 Users | 423 Reviews
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| Title | : | Through a Glass, Darkly |
| Author | : | Jostein Gaarder |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Special Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 176 pages |
| Published | : | November 4th 1999 by Orion Children's Books (an Imprint of The Orion Publishing Group Ltd ) (first published 1993) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Philosophy. Young Adult. Fantasy. Novels |
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It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a spirited and engaging series of conversations between Cecelia and her angel. As the sick girl thinks about her life and prepares for her death, she changes subtly, in herself and in her relationships with her family. Jostein Gaarder is a profoundly optimistic writer, who writes about death with wisdom, compassion and an enquiring mind. 'Through a Glass, Darkly' will not only bring comfort to the bereaved. It will move and amaze everyone who reads it.Rating Epithetical Books Through a Glass, Darkly
Ratings: 3.8 From 6660 Users | 423 ReviewsPiece Epithetical Books Through a Glass, Darkly
My friend force me to read this.. I'm not a book worm, in exam I only used my stock knowledge kind'a lazy.. but somehow I don't know why I grab this book with out thinking.. I'm not interested in books without pictures or colored one.. When I was a child my father bought me fairytales bookz as in always... Colored, few words and with pictures easy to digest of my imagination. Same as the book of fables until highschool. When I was in my college days I preferred to read Reader's Digest I loveSince I lost my mother last year, I've been more or less on the prowl for novels that chronicle loss and the experience of letting someone go. However, I'm more interested in how the person who is actually forced to leave this world experiences all this as I watched my mom go through it all.Jostein Gaarder succeeded in establishing the realm in which Cecilia finds herself as she is facing the inevitable. I really liked the shifts we can see her go into, all the while she's uttering things that
I reread this as a sort of warm-up to embarking on Sophie's World, which I have meant to read for rather a lot of years! I first read this when I was about eight or nine and I remember the huge impact it had on me then.It's a compact, dense little book - although it is aimed at younger readers, there's a lot contained within the pages. It tells the story of Cecilia (or Cecille, in some translations, I believe) who is terminally ill and visited by an angel, Ariel. Basically, they philosophise
Before I started reading this book, I knew I could expect lots and lots of philosophic thoughts in a book by Jostein Gaarder. I knew it would make me think about things I will never understand and maybe even don't want to understand. Nevertheless I started reading this little book "Through a glass, darkly".Though the story is a little dark and sad, there are some deep thoughts in it. Most of these thought are really Christian ideas about heaven and God. I believe that non-Christian people won't
Cecilia, for u i no longer live in the confines of my head. I will soar high in the cosmos, where we shall me meet. The ice is leaving the river...
This was my favorite book throughout the last years of "barneskolen". I must have read it at least seven times. It was just beautiful. Too bad none of the Taylighters aside from Nico and I (who I assume has read it, too) can get the chance to read it.EDIT: Found the English translation. It's called "Through a glass, darkly". Read it!
"Did you know that something can be so nice it almost hurts?" Because you can't run away from your own souls. You can't bite your own tails. Or perhaps that's exactly what you do: you bite your own tails until you shout and scream in fear and terror."Flesh and blood are no more than earth and water, after all. But God has breathed some of his spirit into you. That is why there is a part of you that is God".. The book has aroused that inescapable feeling of being lost in my ignorance.I felt like
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