Tales of the Night Author:Peter Hoeg, Barbara Haveland (Translator) Illuminating, acrobatic, and enriched with historical fact and foreshadowing, a collection of short chiaroscuro stories about different aspects of love. Each story is set on the same spring night 19 March 1929, in different international locations, based on different classical disciplines, music, dance, law, physics, art, medicine, astronomy, dr... more »ama, and mathematics.
Contents:
Journey into a Dark Heart: a young mathematician encounters Joseph Conrad during a train ride through the war-torn Congo;
Hommage To Bournonville: a pair of star-crossed lovers in Lisbon dance through their memories of the Danish ballet;
The Verdict of the Right Honorable Ignatio Landstad Rasker, Lord Chief Justice: an idealistic young writer is prosecuted for his homosexuality by the conservative Lord Chief Justice of Denmark;
An Experiment on the Constancy of Love;
Portrait of the Avant-garde;
Pity for the Children of Vaden Town: a seaside community struggles with the threat of a smallpox epidemic;
Story of a Marriage: a writer discovers that the public image of perfection may at times be more than a little at odds with reality;
Reflection of a Young Man in Balance.
Nordic spelling of author's name: Peter Høeg; translated from the Danish by Barbara Haveland.« less