Hoeg is an excellent author. This is a disturbing book about troubled adolescents. He captures the inner world of teens with rare insight. The only downside for me was the ending that may be thinly veiled pessimism or moralism or perhaps mere realism. Take your pick.
This is an extraordinary book - a work by the Danish author Peter Hoeg. If you are like me, you never heard of him before! I went out on the edge, and decided "whatthehey" let's try it.
The title "Borderliners" may confuse you a little, what it refers to are children "who don't fit in", because of simply not being smart enough, or for having difficulties with others, or for just failing to fit into slots that society has for them.
This book is about survivors, adolescence, the urge for survival, and the concept of time. The book is full of surprises, both good and bad.
I do recommend this book to those of you who seek an intelligent stroll off the beaten path. It is a strange, unforgettable, wonderfully told story.
The title "Borderliners" may confuse you a little, what it refers to are children "who don't fit in", because of simply not being smart enough, or for having difficulties with others, or for just failing to fit into slots that society has for them.
This book is about survivors, adolescence, the urge for survival, and the concept of time. The book is full of surprises, both good and bad.
I do recommend this book to those of you who seek an intelligent stroll off the beaten path. It is a strange, unforgettable, wonderfully told story.
Intriguing stor set in Denmark has a first person immediacy and pulls you inside the narrators strange life.
