Jostein Gaarder has 6 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 7 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 69 ratings. The most-rated is Sophie's World.
Sophie's World
Summary
One day, 14-year-old Sophie Amundsen comes home from school to find two notes in her mailbox, 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. A pause-resisting novel that is also an exploration of the great philosophical concepts of Western thought, Sophie's World has fired the imagination of listeners all over the world, having been translated into 45 languages and with over 20 million copies in print.
©1991 H. Aschelhoug and Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo. Translation 1994 Paulette Moller (P)2007 Audio Renaissance, a division of Holtzbrinck Publishers, LLC
Sophie's World
Summary
One day 14-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 her home. 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.
©©1994 Claudette Moller (P)?1997 / ?2019 Audio Literature / Phoenix Books
An Unreliable Man
Summary
From the creative genius of Jostein Gaarder comes a beautiful novel about loneliness and the power of words. Jakop is a lonely man. Divorced from his wife, with no friends apart from his constant companion Pelle, he spends his life attending the funerals of people he doesn't know, obscuring his identity in a web of improbable lies. As his addiction to storytelling spirals out of control, he is forced to reconcile his love of language and stories with the ever more urgent need for human connection. An Unreliable Man is a moving and thought-provoking novel about loneliness and truth, about seeking a place in the world and about how language and storytelling give our lives meaning. Decades after his global best seller Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder has written a poignant and funny book for our times - full of life and hope.
©2017 Jostein Gaarder (P)2018 Orion Publishing Group
Sofies Welt
Summary
Zwei anonyme Briefe findet die 14-Jährige Sofie in ihrem Briefkasten. In beiden steht nur ein Satz: "Wer bist du?" und "Woher kommt die Welt?" So beginnt Sofies abenteuerliche Zeitreise durch die Jahrtausende der Philosophie. Doch: Wer gibt ihr eigentlich diesen Fernkurs in Philosophie und bringt damit ihren Alltag durcheinander? Und wer ist dieser UN-Major, der seiner Tochter Hilde Geburtstagskarten an Sofies Adresse schreibt? Können Sokrates und Platon dies erklären? Sofie entdeckt staunend Galileis Gesetz der Schwerkraft und versucht, mit Hilfe des Computerprogramms Laila den UN-Major ausfindig zu machen, der immer dreister in Sofies Wirklichkeit eingreift. Wer ist Hilde, wer ist sie selbst? Ist Sofie Hilde? Kurz vor ihrem und Hildes Geburtstag spitzen sich die Ereignisse zu. Zwischen Kant, Hegel und Marx sinnt Sofie darüber nach, wie sie den Major austricksen kann. Da kommt Hilde zu Hilfe...
©1993 Hanser Verlag (P)2010 Random House Audio
The World According to Anna
Summary
On the 20th anniversary of Sophie's World, Jostein Gaarder returns with a spellbinding fable. When 15-year-old Anna begins receiving messages from another time, her parents take her to the doctor. But he can find nothing wrong with Anna; in fact he believes there may be some truth to what she is seeing. Anna is haunted by visions of the desolate world of 2082. She sees her great-granddaughter, Nova, in a wasteland peopled by ragged survivors, after animals and plants have died out. The more Anna sees, the more she realises she must act to prevent the future in her visions from becoming real. But can she act quickly enough? Haunting, gripping and magical, The World According to Anna is a fable for our time. Read by Penelope Rawlins.
©2015 H. Aschehoug & Co. (W. Nygaard), Oslo (P)2015 Orion Publishing Group
Hello? Is Anybody There?
Summary
In the hours before his brother is born, eight year old Joe has an unusual visitor, Mika, who falls out of a spaceship and lands upside down in an apple tree in Joe's garden. Hens, dinosaurs, an astronaut and a white rabbit all play their part in this magical story in which the encounter between Earth-boy and alien opens up the wonders of the universe. Tender and enchanting as The Little Prince and with the same classic quality, Hello? Is Anybody There? confirms Jostein Gaarder as an exceptional writer for children.
©1997 Jostein Gaarder (P)1999 Orion Publishing Group