Name: Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy
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Author: Rivka Galchen
ISBN: 9781250860491

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Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy

Type

Physical Book

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Epilogue by

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Publisher

Language

English

Pages

560

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

21.0 x 13.7 x 2.5 cm

Weight

0.45 kg.

ISBN13

9781250860491

Synopsis "Sophie's World: A Novel about the History of Philosophy"

A brand new 30th anniversary edition of the wildly popular (over thirty million copies in print!), page-turning novel about a young girl's exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought. Fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find in her mailbox two notes, with one question on each: "Who are you?" and "Where does the world come from?" From that irresistible beginning, Sophie becomes obsessed with questions that take her far beyond what she knows of her Norwegian village. Through those letters, she enrolls in a kind of correspondence course, covering Socrates to Sartre, with a mysterious philosopher, while receiving letters addressed to another girl. Who is Hilde? And why does her mail keep turning up? To unravel this riddle, Sophie must use the philosophy she is learning--but the truth turns out to be far more complicated than she could have imagined.

Jostein Gaarder

(Author)

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Jostein Gaarder (Oslo, 1952) was a Philosophy and History of Ideas teacher at a high school in Bergen for ten years. In 1986, he began publishing books, and in 1990 he received the Critics' Prize and the Norwegian Ministry of Culture's Literary Award for his novel The Solitaire Mystery. However, it was Sophie's World that became a true global bestseller and has been awarded in Spain with the Archbishop Juan de San Clemente Prize and the Count of Barcelona Prize.

Gaarder created the Sophie Foundation, whose annual prize financially supported the best innovative work for the environment and development. Among his extensive work, in addition to the novels already mentioned, are The Diagnosis, The Christmas Mystery, The Mirror's Enigma, Vita Brevis, Maya, The Storyteller, The Orange Girl, and The Puppeteer.

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Rivka Galchen

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Rivka Galchen is a Canadian-American writer and journalist born in Toronto in 1976. She is the author of the novel Atmospheric Disturbances (2008), which received the William Saroyan International Prize for Fiction. Her collection of short stories American Innovations (2014) was awarded the Danuta Gleed Literary Award, and her novel Everyone Knows Your Mother Is a Witch (2021) was a finalist for the Atwood Gibson Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize. Her work spans genres such as literary fiction, essays, and short narrative.

Galchen is a regular contributor to magazines like The New Yorker, Harper’s, and The New York Times. She studied medicine at Mount Sinai School of Medicine and earned an MFA in creative writing at Columbia University, where she also teaches. In 2010, she was included in The New Yorker’s “20 Under 40” list, highlighting the most promising writers under 40 years old. Her style is characterized by a sharp and original look at reality, with an approach that combines humor, science, and emotional exploration.

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