The Ringmaster's Daughter

The Ringmaster's Daughter by Jostein Gaarder


ISBN
9780753817001
Published
Binding
Paperback
Pages
224
Dimensions
200 x 132 x 17mm

A psychological portrait of an uncommon man, written with classic Gaarder magic.

In an old fairy story Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her he notices 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 novel which is told by Petter, a precocious child and fantasist. 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 known only as The Spider, but he becomes involved in a series 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.
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