Peter Hoeg

• Sep-1993
• / Suspense
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A Time Best Book of the Year · An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year · A People Best Book of the Year · Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award · A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery NovelFirst published in 1992, Peter Høeg's Sm...

• Nov-1994
• / Suspense
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National BestsellerStrange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. But the school is run by a peculiar set of rules by whi...

• Oct-1996
• / General Fiction
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Through a series of vividly imaginative and wildly colorful characters, Hoeg gives us a very different account of the twentieth century, which in Denmark encompasses the transition from a medieval society to a modern welfare state with its accompanyi...

• Nov-1996
• / General Fiction
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The Woman and the Ape is the story of a unique and unforgettable couple -- Madelene and Erasmus. Madelene -- a sleeping beauty drowsing gently in an alcoholic stupor -- is the beautiful and disillusioned wife of Adam Burden, a distinguished behavior ...

• Jan-1998
• / General Fiction
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These eight stories are linked by a date and a motif. All of them have to do with love. Love and its conditions on the night of March 19, 1929.In his second book and his only collection of stories, Peter Høeg proves himself to be a true storytelle...

• Nov-2007
• / General Fiction
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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 extradi...

• Oct-2012
• / Literary
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From the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow, an epic novel about faith and the magic of everyday life.Told from the precocious perspective of fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers’ Children is about three siblings and how they deal with their...

• Aug-2017
• / Thriller
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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 ...

• / General Fiction
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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....