요슈타인 가아더

《소피의 세계》는 1991년에 출판된 요슈타인 가아더의 소설이다. 원작은 노르웨이어로 쓰여졌고 1995년의 영문판을 비롯하여 세계 35개국에서 출간되었다. 호기심과 탐구심이 많은 소피 아문젠이라는 소녀와 비밀투성이 아저씨 알베르토 크녹스가, 철학과 철학자들에 대하여 나누는 대화로 구성되어 있다. 소피의 세계는 북유럽과 독일에서 베스트셀러가 되었고 1994년에는 독일 청소년 문학상을 받았다. 노르웨이에서 영화로 제작된 적이 있고 오스트레일리아에서는 TV시리즈로 제작된 바 있다. 사람들이 대개 복잡하다고 생각했던 철학을 소피라는 한 소녀의 눈으로 쉽고도 재미있게 …

Jostein Gaarder had an unlikely international success with Sophie's World, a novelized exploration of western philosophy through the eyes of a young girl. This is an earlier work, translated from the Norwegian by Sarah Jane Hails. This fable-like story dabbles in philosophy too, though more lightly. It tells of a …

THE CHRISTMAS MYSTERY transcends all barriers. We all love a beadtime story and here we have a philosophical meditation wrapped in the simple clothes of a journey across Europe to Bethlehem. The qualities of wonder and enquiry that readers loved in SOPHIE'S WORLD are as strong as ever in this beautiful and mysterious …

Conversations about life and death, between a girl and an angel.It's almost Christmas. Cecilia lies sick in bed as her family bustle around her to make her last Christmas as special as possible. Cecilia has cancer. An angel steps through her window. So begins a spirited and engaging series of conversations between …

A chance meeting on the Fijian island of Taveuni is the trigger for a fascinating and mysterious novel that intertwines the stories of John Spooke, an English author who is grieving for his dead wife; Frank Andersen, a Norwegian evolutionary biologist estranged from his wife Vera; and an enigmatic Spanish couple, Ana …

From the author of SOPHIE'S WORLD, 'A masterful mixture of fantasy and reality...a simply wonderful read' SHE.Panina Manina, a trapeze artist, falls and breaks her neck. As the ringmaster bends over her, he notices an amulet of amber around her neck, the same trinket he had given his own lost child, who was swept away …

A playful and inventive work from the bestselling author of SOPHIE'S WORLD. A box of Latin manuscripts comes to light in an Argentine flea market. An apocryphal invention by some 17th or 18th century scolar, or a transcript of what it appears to be - a hitherto unheard of letter to St Augustine to a woman he renounced …