Through A Glass, Darkly

Original title: I et speil, i en gåte
Genres: Children’s / Teenage fiction: General, modern and contemporary fiction · Children’s / Teenage personal and social topics: Death and grief

2010: first published in English
Norwegian: original language
2: edition in English
—: pages

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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