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The History of Danish Dreams
The History of Danish Dreams
Author: Peter Hoeg
Peter Høeg'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 Snow and Borderlin...  more »

In a Danish feudal castle, 1520, a count believes he has pinpointed the center of the universe -- a patch of land on his estate. But when his discovery is met with disbelief, he walls off his mansion and has all of the clocks stopped. Four centuries pass instantaneously, and the count's young secretary, Carl, emerges from isolation to find a world bursting with war, innovation, love, sexuality, danger, and all the values of the sixteenth century turned upside down as though by supernatural forces--namely, the force of history. From one of our most gifted international writers comes a dazzling epic fairy tale, a tough fable about the gifts and iniquities of progress.
ISBN-13: 9780374171384
ISBN-10: 0374171386
Publication Date: 10/1995
Pages: 356
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Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux (T)
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio Cassette
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