A little boy falls off a roof and is killed. Smilla, his neighbour, suspects it is not an accident: she has seen his footsteps in the snow, and, having been brought up by her mother, a Greenlander, she has a feeling for snow.

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Høeg, Peter

Harvill Press

National Bestseller Strange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. But the school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. The children soon suspect that they are guinea pigs in a bizarre social experiment, and that their only hope of escape is to break through a dangerous threshold of time and space. Peter Høeg's "brilliant" and dystopian Borderliners is a "uniquely philosophical thriller" (Boston Sunday Globe) and a haunting story of childhood travail and hope.

Borderliners

Literature & Fiction

Contemporary

UNSPECIFIED VENDOR

Miss Smilla Jasperson isn't prepared to accept the Copenhagen police's verdict of accidental death when a neighbour's six-year-old boy falls from the roof of a block of flats. She's a Greenlander, and her feeling for snow tells her that the footprints in the snow are a clue to what happened.

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

Mystery, Thriller & Suspense

Thrillers & Suspense

Flamingo

Miss Smillas Feeling for Snow

Set in Denmark in the here and now, The Quiet Girl centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical abilities—abilities that Krone also shares. When one of the children goes missing, Krone sets off to find the young girl and bring her back, making a shocking series of discoveries along the way about her identity and the true intentions of his young wards. The result is a fast-paced, philosophical thriller blending social realism with the literary fantastic and pitting art and spirituality against corporate interests and nothing less than the will to war by the industrialized world. The Quiet Girl is a masterful, inventive novel that marks the triumphal return of one of the great writers of the international literary world.

Quiet Girl

Vintage

The History of Danish Dreams

Literary

Vintage Digital

Vintage Classics

THE WOMAN AND THE APE

Madelene's behavioral scientist husband brings home a three-hundred-pound ape named Erasmus, and she comes out of her drunken lethargy to become the ape's champion, determined to save him from inhumane tests, and eventually they flee together and fall in love. Reprint."

The Woman and the Ape

Penguin??Books

Combining the farcical humor of a Marx Brothers movie with the magic of a fable and the pace of a thriller, The Woman and the Ape promises to be Hoeg's most unusual title yet. By the author of the literary bestseller, Smilla's Sense of Snow. 2 cassettes.

Penguin Audio

National Bestseller
Strange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. But the school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. The children soon suspect that they are guinea pigs in a bizarre social experiment, and that their only hope of escape is to break through a dangerous threshold of time and space. Peter Høeg's "brilliant" and dystopian Borderliners is a "uniquely philosophical thriller" (Boston Sunday Globe) and a haunting story of childhood travail and hope.

Borderliners: A Novel

Picador

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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

Borderliners

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow

Miss Smillas Feeling for Snow

Quiet Girl

The History of Danish Dreams

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow

The Woman and the Ape

The Woman and the Ape

Borderliners: A Novel