The long awaited new novel from the author of Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.
Peter H eg was born in 1957 and followed various callings - dancer, actor, fencer, sailor, mountaineer - before he turned seriously to writing. He published his first novel, The History of Danish Dreams, in 1988, and was called 'the foremost writer of his generation' by Information magazine. His crime novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow received universal acclaim and was an international bestseller.
Superb new novel...At once intricate and explosive, The Quiet Girl
is elegantly written and furiously plotted, resonant (though not
acoustically) of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy and also
David Mamet's elaborately staged deceptions
*Independent on Sunday*
In Høeg's hallucinatory prose, Copenhagen has a sinister
near-future feel... there are also passages of lyrical beauty
*Financial Times*
Striking and deeply felt... confirms that Høeg is a writer
determined to make new footprints in the snow
*Guardian*
He writes entertainingly, at times lyrically, at times
scathingly
*Scotland on Sunday*
The Quiet Girl has Hoeg's best-selling hallmarks - including an
off-kilter hero in the shape of Kasper Krone, a world-famous clown
with a penchant for poker and mysticism
*Daily Mail*
In his fifth novel, Hieg (Smilla's Sense of Snow) has crafted an intellectual thriller combining such unlikely elements as an intimate knowledge of Bach's music, the geology of earthquakes, the Russian Orthodox Church in Denmark, and the impeccable timing of great circus clowns. His protagonist, Konrad Krone, is a world-famous clown with world-class gambling debts. Hired by an order of Orthodox nuns to protect a group of unusually gifted children in exchange for debt immunity, Krone uses his unique sense of hearing to track down the sinister businessman who has kidnapped two of the children. The plot has as many twists as an acrobat's performance. Krone discovers that not only does he have a special link to one of the missing children but also that his lost love may be part of this complex conspiracy. This work has many of Hieg's hallmarks-prescient children, a complex and discontinuous narrative, and a central figure still mourning the loss of a parent. As the novel reaches its satisfying denouement, readers will appreciate that a master has not lost his sense of timing. Strongly recommended for all fiction collections. [See Prepub Alert, LJ 7/07.]-Andrea Kempf, Johnson Cty. Community Coll. Lib. Overland Park, KS Copyright 2007 Reed Business Information.
Superb new novel...At once intricate and explosive, The Quiet
Girl is elegantly written and furiously plotted, resonant
(though not acoustically) of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials
trilogy and also David Mamet's elaborately staged deceptions *
Independent on Sunday *
In Hoeg's hallucinatory prose, Copenhagen has a sinister
near-future feel... there are also passages of lyrical beauty *
Financial Times *
Striking and deeply felt... confirms that Hoeg is a writer
determined to make new footprints in the snow -- Mark Lawson *
Guardian *
He writes entertainingly, at times lyrically, at times scathingly *
Scotland on Sunday *
The Quiet Girl has Hoeg's best-selling hallmarks - including
an off-kilter hero in the shape of Kasper Krone, a world-famous
clown with a penchant for poker and mysticism * Daily Mail *
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