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    Sophie's World

    Jostein Gaarder

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    'A simply wonderful, irresistible book' Daily Telegraph'Terrifically entertaining and imaginative' Daily Mail'An extraordinary achievement' Sunday Times

    Sophie's World introduces us to fourteen-year-old Sophie: a Norwegian highschooler who receives mysterious letters addressed to another girl, asking big questions. But who is the other girl? And who, for that matter, is Sophie herself?

    To solve the riddle, Sophie embarks on on a fantastic philosophical saga, and as the book hurtles through several millennia of philosophy - raising profound questions about the meaning of life and the origin of the universe - the dimensions of Sophie's world grow ever wider.

    An addictive blend of mystery, fantasy and philosophy, Sophie's World is an international phenomenon which has been translated into sixty languages and sold more than forty million copies worldwide.

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    Praise for Sophie's World

    • A marvellously rich book. Its success boils down to something quite simple - Gaarder's gift for communicating ideas - GuardianAn ALICE IN WONDERLAND for the 90s . . . already SOPHIE'S WORLD is being talked up as philosophy's answer to Stephen Hawking's A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME . . . this is a simply wonderful, irresistible book. - Daily TelegraphSophie's World is set to become a unique popular classic: a wonderfully engaging mystery story that also forms a completely accessible and lucid introduction to philosophy and philosophers. - The TimesAn extraordinary achievement. - The Sunday TimesA terrifically entertaining and imaginative story wrapped round its tough, thought-provoking philosophical heart. - Daily Mail

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    Jostein Gaarder

    Jostein Gaarder

    Jostein Gaarder was born in Oslo in 1952. Sophie's World, the first of his books to be published in English, has been translated into sixty languages and has sold over forty million copies. He is the author of many other bestselling, beloved novels and children's books, including The Orange Girl, The Christmas Mystery and The Ringmaster's Daughter. He lives in Oslo with his family.

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