What would you have chosen, if there had been some higher power that had gave you the choice? Perhaps we can imagine some sort of cosmic fairy in this great, strange fairytale. Things can be so nice here that it’s terribly painful to think that at some point the days will run out. This might cause you a good deal of grief, as lots of people think that life in the great fairytale is so wonderful that the mere thought of it ending can bring tears to their eyes. All you’d know was that, if you chose to come into the world at some point, you’d also have to leave it again one day and go away from everything. You wouldn’t know when you were going to be born, nor how long you’d live for, but at any event it wouldn’t be more than a few years. And you were able to choose whether you wanted to be born to a life on this planet at some point. The story turns out to be his father telling him how he and his mother met, and then explains how horrible it was to find out he was dying.“Imagine that you were on the threshold of this fairytale, sometime billions of years ago when everything was created. Georg realizes that the "orange girl" was his mother, whom he is still living with.
The story is a request for his son to solve the mystery of the orange girl's identity. Jan Olav attempted to collect the oranges, but found that the girl had already disembarked from the tram. When tram abruptly jolted, the girl's oranges were dispersed. In the story, it is revealed that Jan Olav had once boarded a tram and had taken notice of a beautiful girl who had been clutching a bag of oranges.
Eleven years later, Georg's grandmother finds letters addressed to Georg from Jan Olav, written before his death, along with a story titled "The Orange Girl."Īs Georg soon discovers, "The Orange Girl" is not simply a story, but a riddle from the past that centres around an incident from his father's youth. Georg Røed's father Jan Olav died when he was four years old. The original Norwegian title, appelsin, refers specifically to the fruit and not the colour. The novel was adapted into a film in 2009. The Orange Girl ( Norwegian: Appelsinpiken) is a 2003 novel by Jostein Gaarder, the Norwegian author of the best-selling Sophie's World.
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