Our relationship with death leads us to a kind of fatal coexistence where each one assumes the countdown in the best way he can. Dying is the ultimate Contradiction, and Jostein Gaarder he knows. The protagonist of this new story by the great author is in a particular moment of approach to the deepest doubts about death, those that we avoid with our day to day.
Jakop lives alone and loneliness is the prelude to death. Perhaps that is why Jakob insists on firing unknown deceased persons. Jakop begins to visit funeral homes to fire peers with whom he never shared anything, and expands on them to others who also come to say goodbye.
But what Jakop does not intuit is that, despite his advanced age, there can always be room for the welcome to life, no matter how hard he tries to get used to saying goodbye.
Summary: Sixty-year-old, eccentric and passionate scholar of Indo-European at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Oslo, Jakop leads a lonely life. With no children or close relatives, he only maintains a relationship with his ex-wife and his friend Pelle. But leading such a reduced social life does not seem to matter to him in the least, since a peculiar activity occupies his days completely and, by extension, his entire existence: he attends the funerals of people he does not know, he mixes with the relatives and recalls for them the most endearing anecdotes of his fictitious relationship with the deceased, little stories that, unfailingly, deeply move those present. Until one day, at one of the funerals, Jakop meets Agnes ...
With his unmatched ability to approach the deepest and most transcendental with apparent lightness, the author of Sofia's world offers us an unforgettable novel in the center of which reside, in reality, man and his eternal questions about the meaning of the universe.
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