What makes this book interesting isn’t love and hate nor loyalty or betrayal, no ! Instead what makes it interesting is how life rules work ! A man meets his childhood friend without realizing and loves her then marriage, being a father and later death. The letter is about a love story he lived when he was young, a love story shared with a girl in orange colored everything and a bag full of oranges. He decided that before he dies he will write a letter to be read years later by his son, who he names as his best friend throughout the story.

Jan Olav is a man with a fatal disease, a wife and a 3 and a half years old son. When a man writes a letter to his son, the one that he’s about to leave forever, he needs to be strong enough to choose the boldest words, specially when you know this letter won’t be read until your son is mature enough to understand, and by then you’ve died long ago.Īny words you choose needs to be a chosen with every bit of carefulness in you, as it leaves a lifetime perspective in your offspring’s eyes. Jan olav wasn’t a guy promising nice and fancy castles and Veronika wasn’t a girl of fairy tales, yet they produced one of the nicest fairy tales one can ever live to. It actually wasn’t the girly and easy book that I always imagined ! No in fact it produced some very mature and bold questions, it wasn’t about a dead romance between a guy and a girl, it was a romance that even reached marriage and ended in a very natural way, the death of a side of the marriage.

First of all, I need to admit that this book was way better than my expectations.Ī couple of years ago this book was translated into kurdish under the name ‘kçey pirteqal’ and everyone got crazy about it, whoever I knew had started reading it, and I personally never go near things that majority of people likes, I always think it’s a bit of a trending thing, so i never bothered getting and reading the kurdish edition but lately I was in an english books selling library and my eyes got on a bluish covered book with an orange in the cover, yes it was the orange girl and asked my self why not? So I bought it and instantly started reading it when I got home, and surprisingly I loved it !

The Orange Girl by Jostein Gaarder