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...amazement of its Norwegian author, Jostein Gaarder, 42, Sophie's World, subtitled A Novel About the History of Philosophy, has become a runaway hit practically everywhere it has appeared. In the author's homeland, it has been on the best-seller lists for nearly four years. The novel has been published in 30 countries, including China, Germany, Italy, Japan and South Korea. Late last month Farrar, Straus & Giroux issued an English version in the U.S. (403 pages; $19). Despite reviews that were mixed at best, the first edition of 50,000 copies sold out in less than two weeks...
Sophie Amundsen, the eponymous heroine of this peculiar book, is an ordinary 14-year-old schoolgirl who lives with her mother in an ordinary Norwegian suburb. (Her dad captains an oil tanker and is away most of the time.) One day Sophie gets an unsigned letter in the mail containing only a three-word question: "Who are you?" Soon she receives another anonymous message, asking, "Where did the world come from...
...Scandinavian plane with 129 passengers aboard before surrendering at day's end to Oslo police. He demanded that supply lines to Muslim areas in his troubled homeland be opened tohumanitarian aid. The hijacker took control of a Scandinavian Airlines System flight Thursday afternoon as it flew between the Norwegian towns of Bardufoss and Bodo. After 52 people were allowed off at Bodo, the plane flew 500 miles south to an Oslo airport. The hijacker claimed to have a grenade and threatened to blow up the plane if it was stormed by police. In a tape recording released to Norwegian media...
...granddaddy of the Nobel awards -- the peace prize -- will go to Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO chairman Yasser Arafat on Friday, the Norwegian daily Aftenposten reported today. But the notion of honoring the duo, who clinched the Sept. 13, 1993 accord for Mideast peace, has reportedly tied the Nobel Peace Prize Committee in knots. Sources close to the deliberations told the Oslo paper that former Norwegian government minister Kaare Kristiansen, one of five Peace Prize Committee members and a longtime Israel supporter, has vowed to step down in protest because he still considers Arafat a terrorist. TIME Copenhagen...
Left off the roster for the $930,000 award were Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres, PLO bigwig Mahmoud Abbas and the Norwegian peace brokers who sweated over the deal. Oh, and, of course, Jimmy Carter...