Peter Høeg

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Living on an island where all faiths coexist peacefully, precocious teen Peter and his siblings are shocked when their devout vicar father and eccentric artisan mother go missing at the height of an effort to boost church attendance.

The Elephant Keepers' Children

The quiet girl

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Fräulein Smillas Gespür für Schnee

The original Scandinavian thriller One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop.The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, an expert in the ways of snow and ice, suspects murder. She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow.

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

You'll tell her your darkest secrets Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy and there is a prison sentence hanging over her head. Then Susan gets a timely offer from a former government official- use her power one more time and have all charges dropped. But there are some powerful people determined to stop her.

The Susan Effect

A mysterious order of nuns promises Kaspar Krone, a circus clown with a gambling debt and wanted for tax evasion, a reprieve from the authorities in exchange for his help in safeguarding children with mystical abilities--talents that he also shares. By the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow. 75,000 first printing.

The Quiet Girl

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Effekten af Susan

The internationally acclaimed bestselling author of Smilla's Sense of Snow returns with this "engrossing, beautifully written tale of suspense . . . captivating" (The Miami Herald). Set in Denmark in the here and now, Peter Hoeg's 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 return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical abilities -- abilities that Krone also shares. When one of the children goes missing, Krone sets off to find the young girl and bring her back, making a shocking series of discoveries along the way about her identity and the true intentions of his young wards. The result is a fast-paced, philosophical thriller blending social realism with the literary fantastic and pitting art and spirituality against corporate interests and nothing less than the will to war by the industrialized world. The Quiet Girl is a masterful, inventive novel that marks the triumphal return of one of the great writers of the international literary world.

A Novel

The author of the acclaimed Smilla's Sense of Snow tells the story of a troubled youth in a Danish boarding school who discovers that he and his fellow inmates are part of a bizarre social experiment. Reprint. 10,000 first printing.

Borderliners

An emotional and erotic love affair develops between Madelene, the beautiful, disillusioned wife of Adam Burden, and Erasmus, the intelligent ape brought to the Burden's London home after escaping animal smugglers

The Woman and the Ape

Per la polizia non ci sono dubbi: è stato un incidente. Il piccolo Esajas correva sul tetto innevato quando è caduto, rimanendo ucciso. Ma Smilla non è convinta: lei viene dalla Groenlandia, e la neve la conosce bene, sa leggervi le tracce, e ora le impronte del bambino le dicono in modo chiaro che non si è trattato di un incidente... Mentre Copenaghen si prepara a celebrare il Natale, Smilla inizia a investigare, trovandosi pericolosamente a confronto con una serie di inquietanti personaggi, coinvolta in un'indagine destinata a portare lontano, in viaggio su una nave la cui meta misteriosa è un punto deserto della calotta polare. Perché là, fra quei ghiacci che conosce, teme e rispetta, è nascosta la verità di cui Smilla va in cerca. La verità che forse, inconsciamente, ha sempre inseguito. Da questo best seller del 1992 il regista Bille August ha tratto il film omonimo nel 1997. [Fonti: G.M.; varie; https://www.ibs.it/senso-di-smilla-per-neve-libro-peter-hoeg/e/9788804727545]. - Peter Høeg (Copenaghen 1957) è uno scrittore danese. Il suo estro fantastico si presta a una decostruzione romanzesca dei presunti valori occidentali. Ha conosciuto il successo mondiale con il giallo «postcoloniale» Il senso di Smilla per la neve (1992), ma già La storia dei sogni danesi (1988), il libro d'esordio, capovolge in modo parodistico alcuni miti della cultura nazionale. I quasi adatti (1993) denuncia il sistema scolastico danese per le pratiche repressive sui bambini ribelli all'imposizione. Tra le altre opere, Racconti notturni (1990) e i romanzi La donna e la scimmia (1996), La bambina silenziosa (2006), I figli dei guardiani di elefanti (2010), L'effetto Susan (2016). [Fonte: https://www.ibs.it/libri/autori/peter-høeg].

Il senso di Smilla per la neve

Rigt facetteret spændingsroman om en grønlandsk-dansk kvindes forsøg på at afsløre den forbryderiske baggrund for en lille grønlandsk drengs død i København.

Smilla e os Mistérios da Neve

Barbara Haveland

All the stories in Tales of the Night take place on the night of the 19th March 1929. All show different facets of love - love as violence, love as redemption, as suffering, as wisdom. Each has as a theme a particular discipline: mathematics, dance, law, visual arts, medicine, drama and astronomy. A young mathematician is led to an understanding of Europe's 19th century Scramble for Africa by a meeting with a fellow train passenger who reveals himself to be Joseph Conrad. A respected judge confesses his love for a young homosexual who he has convicted of immorality. A small, insular town is ravaged by a smallpox epidemic. Set in the Congo, on a small sailing boat off Lisbon, in the Baltic archipelago and in the author's native Denmark, these intricate and surprising stories, powerfully but wonderfully influenced by the work of Karen Blixen, amount to a rich and rewarding book.

The History of Danish Dreams

Als er an Biehls Privatschule kommt, hat Peter schon sieben Waisenhäuser und Kinderheime hinter sich. Immer öfter trifft er sich nun heimlich mit Katarina, um zu beraten: Warum haben alle Lehrer ihre Kinder von der Schule genommen ? Und was hat es mit den verschärften Sicherheitsmaßnahmen auf sich ? Peter Hoegs Roman geht unter die Haut - als Anklage eines unmenschlichen Schulsystems, als philosophische Betrachtung über die Zeit, als autobiographische Bewältigung und als ganz zarte Liebesgeschichte.

Der Plan von der Abschaffung des Dunkels

Love as violence, love as a curse, love as redemption, as suffering, as wisdom, as innocence, as delusion – each story takes place on the night of 19 March 1929 and a character tries to understand or express love from his or her perspective: as dancer, lawyer, astronomer, mathematician, artist, actor, doctor, mirror-maker. This book, inhabited by real and imagined characters at the mid point between the two world wars, was an early landmark in a career that includes the controversial novel Borderliners and perhaps the most attractive thriller of the decade, Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow.

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