Vita Brevis

Author: Jostein Gaarder

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Price : 24.95 NZD
ISBN : 9780753804612
Publisher : Phoenix (Orion imprint)
Imprint : Phoenix (Orion imprint)
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Weight (g) : 0.174
Publication date : 01 January 1900
Dimensions : 20.00 cmmm X 15.40 cmmm X 1.40 cmmm
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Language : en
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A playful and inventive work from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD. A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St Augustine to a woman he renounced for chastity? VITA BREVIS is both an entrancing human document and a fascinating insight into the life and philosophy of St.Augustine. Gaarder's interpretation of Floria's letter is as playful, inventive and questioning as SOPHIE'S WORLD.

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