«This novel is a journey from the ocean floor to the ends of the universe. And as soon as it's over, we want to send a message to our loved ones to remind them how much they mean to us.
Universitas

On the first day of college, Albert meets Eirin. They had not seen each other before but they will never be apart again. After thirty-seven years together, while Eirin is at a conference in Melbourne, Albert leaves the doctor's office with devastating news. How to deal with something like that? To search for an answer, he decides to take refuge in the Story House, the cabin they have on the shores of Glitretjern lagoon. There, completely isolated, he will give himself twenty-four hours to review his life, to write everything down, even what he has kept secret until that April 23, 2009 ... And just when he is sure that only darkness opens before him - as in those nights when he rowed to the center of the lake to search the abyss — Albert will understand that in all darkness, even in the deepest, there is always a place for light.

In this new novel - honest and beautiful vital sum - a Jostein Gaarder in a state of grace manages, at the same time, to move us and make us reflect. All with a single purpose: to reconcile with ourselves and with the world around us.