Hans Thomas, a 12-year-old Norwegian boy, and his father set out on a journey to Athens in search of their mother, who left them eight years ago to "find herself." Chance makes them stop at Dorf, a small town where an old baker gives the young man a bun that hides a tiny book, which Hans Thomas will begin to read with the help of a magnifying glass that a mysterious dwarf gives him. From that moment, the boy begins another exciting parallel journey: that of the imagination. You will know about Frode, a sailor who was shipwrecked and survived on a desert island, about his deck of cards and how he fought his loneliness by making each of the 53 cards have a life of their own (52 of them quite unconscious; only one, Joker, understands truly the rules of solitaire that the old man makes). Thinking about all this, a question will arise to Hans Thomas: To what extent can we, unlike playing c...read more
