'The Ringmaster's Daughter' by Jostein Gaarder is a unique and thought-provoking novel that follows the perspective of a young boy named Petter with an overactive imagination. Petter's ability to weave beautiful and tragic stories, blurring the lines between dreams and reality, leads him to start a business helping struggling writers by sharing his ideas. However, as the story unfolds, Petter finds himself entangled in a web of deception and danger due to the words he has allowed others to claim as their own. The book delves into themes of creativity, imagination, and the consequences of intertwining fiction with reality, all narrated by a character who struggles with distinguishing between truth and fantasy.
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Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he sees around her neck an amber charmjust like the one he gave his own child before she was swept away in a torrent 16 years earlier. This tale is narrated by Petter, a precocious child and a fantasist, and perhaps Jostein Gaarder's most intriguing creation since Sophie. Petter makes his living selling stories and ideas to authors suffering from writer's block. It's a lucrative trade, but as he sits like a spider in the center of his web, Petter finds himself in a trap of his own making. Jostein Gaarder is the author of Sophie's World, a huge bestseller in over 40 countries.
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