The Orange Girl

Author: Jostein Gaarder

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 Røed, 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 die….Read More

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