Roberto Bacci Volgorde van de boeken (chronologisch)

A playful and inventive work from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD.

Cecilie ligt in bed, want ze is ernstig ziek. Misschien heeft ze niet lang meer te leven. Met Kerstmis komt de engel Ariël bij haar op bezoek. De engel wil weten hoe het is om een mens te zijn, hoe eten smaakt en hoe het voelt als er bloed door je aderen stroomt. Ze spreken af dat Cecilie zal vertellen wat het inhoudt om een mens te zijn, terwijl Ariël uit zal leggen wat het betekent een engel te zijn.

They meet on a spring day in the local garden center: Inge, a native Swede, lovely and refined, is a woman ruled by reason and her own deeply held moral beliefs; and Mira, a Chilean immigrant who still feels out of place in the cold Scandinavian north, and has spent far too much of her life searching for meaning. Intrigued by one another, the two women are nevertheless wary of the great cultural differences that seem to separate their lives. Yet both are single mothers devoted to their children, and both find joy and comfort in cultivating plants and flowers -- and so together, they begin to develop a close bond. Through many afternoons spent amid the beauty of Inge's garden, Mira slowly reveals the horrors of a shadowed past and the heartbreak involving her beloved daughter. As Mira and her family begin a wrenching journey of discovery, Inge unwittingly uncovers secrets in her own life that make her question the very order of her world . . . and wonder whether the truth is really what any of them needs to find -- or if, in fact, it is the truth that will destroy them.