Second Peter Hoeg book to be reissued in Harvill Panther. "Borderliners" is the story of three children who are suffering the regime of an experimental school where time is used as an instrument of oppression to be resisted and rebelled against. "What is most moving is their acceptance of how appallingly most adults will behave towards them" - The Guardian Hoeg believes that he...
Second Peter Hoeg book to be reissued in Harvill Panther.
"Borderliners" is the story of three children who are suffering the regime of an experimental school where time is used as an instrument of oppression to be resisted and rebelled against.
"What is most moving is their acceptance of how appallingly most adults will behave towards them" - The Guardian
Hoeg believes...
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Second Peter Hoeg book to be reissued in Harvill Panther.
"Borderliners" is the story of three children who are suffering the regime of an experimental school where time is used as an instrument of oppression to be resisted and rebelled against.
"What is most moving is their acceptance of how appallingly most adults will behave towards them" - The Guardian
Hoeg...
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow or Smilla's Sense of Snow (Danish: Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne) is a 1992 novel by Danish author Peter Høeg.
During her Greenland childhood Smilla developed an almost intuitive understanding of all types of snow and their characteristics. As an adult she worked for a time as a scientist whose specialty was snow and ice. Her certainty about...
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow or Smilla's Sense of Snow (Danish: Frøken Smillas fornemmelse for sne) is a 1992 novel by Danish author Peter Høeg.
During her Greenland childhood Smilla developed an almost intuitive understanding of all types of snow and their characteristics. As an adult she worked for a time as a scientist whose specialty was snow and ice. Her certainty about...
Picador, 2008. — 408 p. — ISBN: 0312428014; ISBN13: 9780312428013. In a Danish feudal castle, 1520, a count believes he has pinpointed the center of the universe--a patch of land on his estate. But when his discovery is met with disbelief, he walls off his mansion and has all of the clocks stopped. Four centuries pass instantaneously, and the count's young secretary, Carl,...
Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities...
Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in...
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Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international...
Picador, 2007. — 261 p. — ISBN: 0312427123; ISBN13: 9780312427122. General Fiction Large Print Edition Hoeg is an adventurous and intelligent writer whose future course seems happily, impossible to predict...one of the essential contemporary novelists.
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