num_pages: 436
description: Looking in her mailbox one day, a fourteen-year-old Norwegian schoolgirl called Sophie Amundsen finds two surprising pieces of paper. On them are written the questions: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?"The writer is an enigmatic philosopher called Alberto Knox, and his two teasing questions are the beginning of an extraordinary tour through the history of Western Philosophy from the pre-Socratics to Sartre. In a series of brilliantly entertaining letters, and then in person. Alberto Knox opens Sophie's enquiring mind to the fundamental questions that philosophers have been asking since the dawn of civilisation.'Remarkable... What Jostein Gaarder has managed to do is to condense 3,000 years of thought into 400 pages: to some extremely complicated arguments without trivialising them... Sophie's World is an extraordinary achievement' Sunday Times'Sophie'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 Times
language: English
title: Sophie's World
titlecomplete: Sophie's World
characters: Cecilia Skotbu, Plato, Malaikat Ariel, Aristotle (philosopher), Sofie Amundsen, Sigmund Freud, St. Augustine, Jesus, Jorunn, George Berkeley, David Hume, Karl Marx, Thomas Aquinas, Socrates (philosopher), Charles Darwin, Baruch Spinoza, John Locke, René Descartes, Immanuel Kant
genres: Literature, Young Adult, Classics, Novels, Philosophy, Fiction, Fantasy, Scandinavian Literature, Contemporary, Unfinished
ratings_count: 252228
places: Norway
awards: awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Buxtehuder Bulle, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Premio Bancarella, awardedAt: 757411200000
name: Deutscher Jugendliteraturpreis
category: Jugendbuch, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Prix des libraires du Québec
category: Lauréats hors Québec, name: دار المنى, awardedAt: 852105600000
name: Literaturpreis der Jury der jungen Leser
category: Jugendbuch, name: Prime Minister of Pakistan's Award
category: Literature, awardedAt: 820483200000
name: Premio San Clemente Rosalía-Abanca
category: Lingua estranxeira
publisher: Phoenix