Peter Høeg Books

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Sherlock Holmes is probably the most famous detective of all time. Countless numbers of enthusiasts read and re-read the fifty-six short stories and four novels which make up the adventures of the master, endlessly debating his life and cases. A Sherlock Holmes Companion brings together some of the best essays and articles writting about the great detective since he made his debut in 1887. Contributors include J.M. Barrie, P.G. Wodehouse, John Gardner, and the actor who played Holmes on the screen, Basil Rathbone. A Sherlock Holmes Companion fully explores the Holmes legend and includes acounts of the places he visited, his friends, his foes, his rivals, and the many aspects of his personality. To all this is added a generous helping of puzzles and quizzes to test the reader's knowledge of the cases, and a wide-ranging selection of Holmesian illustrations. --Book Jacket.

Høeg es el aclamado autor de 'La señorita Smila y su especial percepción de la nieve', novela que fue llevada al cine, nos deleita con una novela donde nada es lo que parece. Nunca es demasiado tarde para tener una infancia feliz. Creo que es cierto. Pero a veces es un problema.No hay complicaciones, sólo retos, sostiene Tilde Fin?. Sí, eso es lo que ella y sus hermanos Peter y Hans se encuentran: son desafíos astronómicos, cuando sus padres desaparecen de repente. Unos padres que han estado previamente bajo vigilancia policial por timos relacionados con los milagros. Con delincuentes comunes como padres, la mayoría de los niños sentirían un gran alivio cuando éstos desaparecieran. Pero no los tres hermanos. En la huida de la policía, la lucha contra el tiempo, a través del ambiente social de los nobles, los criminales y los religiosos, los niños están constantemente tratando de averiguar dónde han ido sus padres. En el camino, se enfrentan a las preguntas fundamentales de la existencia, a conflictos políticos y obstáculos insalvables. Pero pueden ser superados con ingenio y fe en una puerta hacia la libertad, aunque todos los caminos parezcan cerrados…

Ni fortællinger, som er fælles om en dato og et motiv: de handler alle om kærligheden og dens betingelser, om natten den 19. marts 1929

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, 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. 'A subtle novel, yet direct, clever, wistful, unforgettable' Ruth Rendell, Daily Telegraph 'On one level, both a whodunit and a thriller - ingeniously plotted. Extremely hard to put down. Peter H�eg's novel is already making for classic status' Sunday Times 'Unusual and enveloping. Extraordinarily evocative, atmospheric and poetic' Sunday Times 'An Arctic tale worthy of Conrad' New Statesman 'A cracker...hard to put down' Edmund White

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. The school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. Soon, they suspect they are guinea pigs in a bizarre social experiment and that their only hope of escape is to break through a dangerous threshold of time and space. Peter Høeg's "brilliant" and dystopian Borderliners is a "uniquely philosophical thriller" ( Boston Sunday Globe ) and a haunting story of childhood travail and hope.

From the bestselling author of Smilla's Sense of Snow comes his first novel--an inspired and often hilarious Danish family saga suffused with satire and magical realism.

Lonely and disillusioned, Madelene Burden is a modern-day sleeping beauty drowsing in a alcoholic stupor. And the prince whose kiss brings her to life is 300-pound ape named Erasmus, the victim of a smuggling gone awry. Enthralling readers with the same taut prose, enigmatic characters, thrilling suspense, and satirical humor that drove "Smilla" to the top of bestseller lists, Hoeg offers a daring and imaginative fable that poses searching questions about the nature of romance.

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 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. When one of the children goes missing a year later, 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 Quiet Girl pits art and spirituality against corporate interests and nothing less than the will to war by the industrialized world. This long-awaited novel from the author of Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow is a fast-paced philosophical thriller of rare quality.

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.