A brand-new 30th anniversary edition of the wildly popular (over fifty million copies in
print!) page-turning novel about a young girl's exploration of the great philosophical
concepts of Western thought. Jostein Gaarder's Sophie's World is an exciting coming-of-age
novel that thrives on its contradictions. It is a page-turning science fiction adventure as
well as a history of Western philosophy-from the discourses of ancient Greece to debates about
the Big Bang. The games begin when fourteen-year-old Sophie Amundsen finds two notes in her
mailbox. One note asks "Who are you?" The other asks "Where does the world come from?" From
here with the aid of a devoted but mysterious instructor Sophie sets off on a fantastic
philosophical saga that will take her far beyond her small Norwegian hometown. Letters give way
to lectures questions give way to quests and the dimensions of Sophie's world (as well as our
own) grow ever wider deeper and richer.
