Høeg, Peter.
Summary: Told from the perspective of precocious fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the fictional island of Finø, where people of all faiths coexist peacefully. Yet nothing is at it...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Blackstone Audio, Inc. 2012
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Høeg, Peter
Summary: A satire on Denmark. The characters include a count who decides to stop time by outlawing clocks on his estate, an old lady who presides over a newspaper dynasty and devotes herself to predicting the future, and a son who causes his parents sorrow by refusing to be a thief like them. By the author of Borderliners.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Picador 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1996
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Summary: Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen investigates the mysterious death of a six year old Inuit neighbor in Copenhagen.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar Straus and Giroux 1993
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Summary: 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 eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother is an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Other Press 2012
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Hoeg, Peter
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Publisher / Publication Date: Eagle Large Print 1994
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1994
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Summary: A novel that challenges ideas about education and childhood relates the tale of a boy who grows up in institutions and becomes drawn to outsiders at an elite private school.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wheeler Pub. 1994
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Summary: 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 return for his...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux 2007