She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memoriesa dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, [...]
Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann 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 myst[...]
Peter and Tilte are trying to track down two notorious criminals: their parents. They are the pastor and the organist, respectively, of the only church on the tiny island of Fino. Known for fabricating cheap miracles to strengthen their congregation's faith, they have been in trouble before.[...]
Peter Hoeg's first novel is an interweaving of the lives and loves of four families, within which histories time expands, clocks stop or race forward at will. The dreams and disappointments of the children of the author's magnificent imagination foreshadow the themes of Miss Smilla's Feeling for Sno[...]
National Bestseller
Strange 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 which every minute is regimented and controlled.[...]
"A "Chicago Tribune "Favorite Book of 2007
"The internationally acclaimed bestselling author of "Smilla's Sense of Snow "returns with this "engrossing, beautifully written tale of suspense . . . captivating" ("The ""Miami Herald").Kaspar Krone is a world-renowned circus clown, and a man in some [...]
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 life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's [...]
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 life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's [...]
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[...]
Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist, comfortably off and a chronic alcoholic. The ape is Erasmus, who comes ashore in London from sailing boat called "The Ark". Burden aims to use the ape as the means to fulfil his ambition to direct the London Zoo. Erasmus and Madelene elope.[...]
Im Kopenhagener Hafenviertel stürzt ein Junge vom Dach eines Lagerhauses. Todesursache laut Polizeibericht: ein Unfall. Smilla Jaspersen, die im selben Haus wohnt wie der Junge, sieht das anders und stellt ihre eigenen Nachforschungen an. Der internationale Erfolg dieses literarischen Thrillers hat[...]
Platsen är Köpenhamn. Susan är fyrtiotre år och världsberömd fysiker, mamma till tvillingar och gift med Laban. Dessutom har hon en unik egenskap: hon får andra att bli helt uppriktiga. Problemet är att Susan har missbrukat denna förmåga och därför riskerar ett långt fängelsestraff. S�[...]
I Elefantskötarnas barn får vi möta den fjortonåriga Peter och hans syskon Tilte och Hans som bor i en prästgård på Finö. Tillsammans med sin hund, Basker III, ger de sig ut för att söka vad som har hänt deras försvunna föräldrar.
Men eftersom deras familj inte riktigt är [...]