THE ORANGE GIRL PB – JOSTEIN GAARDER

From the author of SOPHIE S WORLD, a modern fairy tale with a philosophical twist. It should be read by all VOGUE 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 Roed, 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 died, and a story, The Orange Girl . But The Orange Girl is no ordinary story – it is a riddle from the past and centres around an incident in his father s youth. One day he boarded a tram and was captivated by a beautiful girl standing in the aisle, clutching a huge paper bag of luscious-looking oranges. Suddenly the tram gave a jolt and he stumbled forward, sending the oranges flying in all directions. The girl simply hopped off the tram leaving Georg s father with arms full of oranges. Now, from beyond the grave, he is asking his son to help him finally solve the puzzle of her identity.