Some time ago I read a new book by one of my favourite contemporary writers, Jostein Gaarder - "The Castle in the Pyrenees". The book doesn't seem extremely original in its form, as well as in the subject (who knows Gaarder's books, knows what to expect). But it was lovely to indulge myself in good literature again.
The story is told through email correspondence between two people, who used to be a couple in their twenties (or even more - soulmates, I'd say) and after 30 years they meet again for a while. Why did they break up and what has led to their meeting after so many years? In the emails they come back to events which had place when they were young and which in some way led to their break up. They also write about their world views, beliefs, ideas about the world, life and death.
The ending is quite surprising, the story finishes in such a moment that the reader can hardly leave and just forget about it. The characters from "The Castle in the Pyrenees" where hanging around in my head for a while, going away and coming back. Together with them - thoughts about what life really is, what the universe is, where is the end of the world and what its beginning was. And who are we?
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