Through a Glass, Darkly

By: Jostein Gaarder

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Paperback | 26 December 1999 | Edition Number 2

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Conversations about life and death, between a girl and an angel.

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.

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Cecilia is dying of cancer. Suddenly, an angel appears at her bedside. An apparition with a teasing manner and penetrating, turquoise-blue eyes, who entices the invalid into a series of conversations that embrace and explain many of the mysteries of creation, but not all. Sophie's World author Gaarder casts a compassionate eye on the dying child and her metaphysical mentor, and as the snow melts towards spring and Cecilia's body is invaded by death, her spirit is liberated and faces eternity - but not alone. (Kirkus UK)

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