Le monde de Sophie

One day 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.