Tales of the Night - Hardcover

Hoeg, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0374272549 ISBN 13: 9780374272548

Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 1998

Synopsis

An anthology of eight stories that use love as their main theme visits unusual locales, such as a railroad car in the Congo, a sailboat in the harbor of Lisbon, and an apartment in Copenhagen. By the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow. 20,000 first printing.

About this title

Review:

PETER HOEG was born in 1957 and followed callings - dancer, actor, sailor, mountaineer - before he turned seriously to writing. After publishing the present volume of stories and his first novel, The History of Danish Dreams, "a vaultingly ambitious and hugely accomplished first novel" in the opinion of Peter Whittaker, New Statesman & Society, he went on to write the innovative crime novel, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, which assured him an international reputation. The variety of his talent was amply demonstrated with his subsequent novels, Borderlines, a remarkable study of children that caused controversy within Denmark and beyond, and the recent satirical ecological fable, The Woman and the Ape.

Book Description:

A Kaleidoscopic collection of stories and scenes from one of Denmark's finest writers.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0374272549
• ISBN 13: 9780374272548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 278