From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, 'A masterful mixture of fantasy and reality..
.a simply wonderful read' SHE. Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks
her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he notices an amulet of amber aroun
d her neck, the same trinket he had given his own lost child, who was swept away
in a torrent some sixteen years earlier.
This tale is narrated by Petter, a
precocious child and fantasist, and perhaps Jostein Gaarder's most intriguing ch
aracter since Sophie. As an adult, Petter makes his living selling stories and i
deas to professionals suffering from writer's block. But as Petter sits spinning
his tales, he finds himself in a trap of his own making.
