A la veille de ses quinze ans, Sophie Amundsen, jeune fille « presque modèle », reçoit une lettre d’un mystérieux individu. A l’intérieur, une seule phrase : «Qui es-tu ?» C’est le début d’une étrange correspondance qui l’amène peu à peu à partir sur les traces des plus grandes figures de la philosophie. Un roman initiatique paré de magie devenu grand classique de la littérature contemporaine.

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.

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