The Christmas Mystery (Christmas Fiction)

by JosteinGaarder (Author)

• New

  Paperback
  1999

  $11.88

  Fifty years ago a girl disappeared from her home in Norway. She ran after a lamb and found herself travelling right across Europe to Palestine, and back through 2000 years to meet the Holy Family in Bethlehem. There she met angels, shepherds, wise men and other biblical characters who joined her on her pilgrimage; and she heard of many of the things that happened in the world in the last 2000 years. In present-day Norway, a boy acquires a strange old Advent calendar. Hidden in each of the windows is a tiny piece of paper. Little by little these pieces unfold the girl's story and as we learn what happened to her, another story is revealed - that of the strange old man who made the calender.

• Used

  Paperback
  1997

  $3.86

  As Joachim opens, day by day, the windows in an old Advent calendar, a story emerges about a little girl called Elisabet who, fifty years ago, disappeared from Norway and travelled across Europe and back through time to be present at the birth of Christ in Bethlehem. This beautiful, mysterious story has been a huge success, both for the children it was originally written for, and as an enduring Christmas seller on the adult list. It now appears in a new form designed to appeal to a younger age group. Much shorter than the original, it loses nothing of the plot, and is enhanced by delightful halftone illustrations that dance through the text, showing angels, shepherds, children, kings and all the many characters who join Elisabet on her journey to Bethlehem.

• Used

  Hardcover
  1997

  $3.35

  A startlingly original presentation of the nativity story, woven into an enthralling and mysterious novel, this is a book that opens eyes and minds to the wonder and mystery of Christmas, and transcends all barriers to reach adults and children, believers and non-believers alike. The qualities of wonder and enquiry that readers loved in SOPHIE'S World are as strong as ever in this beautiful new Jostein Gardner book.