The Castle in the Pyrenees Gaarder J

Through five intense years in the 1970s,
Steinn and Solrunn had a happy life together. Then they suddenly parted ways, for
reasons that are unclear to both. In the summer of 2007 they meet again on a balcony
of an old wooden hotel by a fjord in western Norway. It is a place they both have
fond memories from, and their meeting turns out to be fateful. But is it purely
coincidental that they meet at that particular spot at that particular time? Over
a couple of weeks that summer they write emails to each other, and it becomes clear
that they have been living with very different interpretations of their shared past.
THE CASTLE IN THE PYRENEES is both a love story and a novel of ideas, exploring
the place of human consciousness in the universe. Its main theme is of great current
interest: can scinece explain everything, or does some invisible force influence
our lives?