Böcker av Peter Hoeg

Smilla tycker bättre om snö och is än om kärleken. Hon har lättare att intressera sig för matematik än för att tycka om sina medmänniskor. Då grannpojken Esajas hittas död får hennes kunskaper om snö henne att bli misstänksam. Tillsammans med en g...

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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 därfö...

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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 der...

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"Wer 'Fräulein Smilla' liebt, wird auch 'Das stille Mädchen' mögen." (Literaturen)

Kasper Krone ist der berühmteste Clown Europas. Seit einem Unfall verfügt er über ein einzigartiges Geh&oum...

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Als er an Biehls Privatschule kommt, hat Peter schon sieben Waisenhäuserund Kinderheime hinter sich. immer öfter trifft er sich nun heimlich mitKatharina, um zu beraten: Warum haben alle Lehrer ihre Kinder von der Schulegenommen? Und was...

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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....

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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 därfö...

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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 ext...

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Three emotionally damaged children were all under assessment in Biehl's experimental school, they were all borderliners. Fully alert to their guinea-pig status they attempt to escape and expose its oppresive mechanisms.

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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 f...

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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 da...

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"Catcher in the Rye meets A Brief History of Time in Peter Hoeg's Borderliners" (Glamour)--a tightly-wound, stunningly original psychological drama about a young man at an ominous Copenhagen boarding school. "Skillfully wrought"...

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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 th...

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She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime... <BR>...

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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 e...

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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 thei...

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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 ta...

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A novel of three damaged children suffer the regime of an experimental school where time is an instrument of oppression to be resisted and subverted.

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The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Hoeg's no...

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Eight tales, all concerned with love and its conditions, on the night of 19 March, 1929.

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Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in ...

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Sechs Variationen des einen großen Themas: der Liebe. Ob Physikerin, Ballettänzerin, Musiker, Reeder, Schauspieler oder Dichter; sie alle machen ihre eigenen Erfahrungen. Sie fordern die Liebe heraus, messen sich mit ihr oder versuchen,...

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Peter Høegs Weltbestseller - von Bille August mit Julia Ormond in der Hauptrolle verfilmt - führt mitten in Eis und Finsternis. Wenige Tage vor Weihnachten wird im Kopenhagener Hafenviertel ein sechsjähriger Junge gefunden: tot. Er ist offenbar vo...

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Ein Affe nähert sich London. Auf einem Segelboot übernimmt er plötzlich das Ruder und rast in krachender Fahrt mitten durch die Nobelboote des königlichen Yachtclubs. Erasmus, so der Name des hundertfünfzig Kilo schweren H...

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Kasper Krone ist der berühmteste Clown Europas - und er hat ein phänomenales Gehör. Als eines Tages das Mädchen KlaraMaria - von der eine eigenartige Stille ausgeht - verschwindet, ahnt er, dass etwas Entsetzliches geschehen wi...

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