Stein and Solrunn haven’t seen each other since they lived together for five intense years in the 1970s. But one day they meet again on the balcony of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in the western Norway. It’s remarkable that they meet there, because it was in that very same village that they more than 30 years earlier experiences something that shook them both, and that ultimately drove them away from each other.
What struck them that time? Their interpretations of what happened differ radically. Now a dialogue between two world views is reopened, and old love starts to burn again.
The Castle in the Pyrenees is a novel of love as well as of ideas. Are reason and science the only things that can shed light over human existence, or are there also hidden forces that can play tricks on us once in a while?
The Castel in the Pyrenees by Jostein Gaarder (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, R170)
Slottet i Pyreneene (The Castel in the Pyrenees) first published by Aschehoug 2008