Peter Hoeg, Author, Peter Heg, Author Delta $16 (288p) ISBN 978-0-385-31508-1
The second of Danish writer HYeg's novels to be translated into English (following Smilla's Sense of Snow) concerns a trio of misfits at an elite boarding school who discover they are guinea pigs in a sinister experiment. (Nov.)
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Peter Hoeg, trans. from the Danish by Martin Aitken. Other Press, $27.95 (512p) ISBN 978-1-59051-490-0
Readers who expect another taut, chilling literary thriller by the author of Smilla’s Sense of Snow are in for a surprise. A thriller of sorts this is, but it’s more humorous than frightening, more of a caper than a mystery, and more of a coming-of-a
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Peter Hoeg, Author, Peter Heg, Author, Barbara Haveland, Translator Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (304p) ISBN 978-0-374-27254-8
Originally published in Denmark in 1990, before HYeg's 1993 bestseller, Smilla's Sense of Snow, these eight stories take us to eight separate corners of the world on the night of March 19, 1929, a sort of universal Black Monday of the soul. In ""Jour
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Peter Hoeg, Author, Barbara Haveland, Translator, Peter Heg, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $24 (356p) ISBN 978-0-374-17138-4
His name having been established here through his second and third novels, Smilla's Sense of Snow and Borderliners, Hoeg now offers his debut work, first published in Denmark in 1988. As its subtitle indicates, this is an ambitious and quirky novel,
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Peter Hoeg, Author, Barbara Haveland, Translator, Peter Heg, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $22 (277p) ISBN 978-0-374-11554-8
In Hoeg's previous book, the thriller Smilla's Sense of Snow, the psychological insights and background detail were more gripping than the action scenes. Here, he has largely eschewed action and produced a story of psychological suspense in which...
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Peter Hoeg, Author, Barbara Haveland, Translator, Peter Heg, Author Farrar Straus Giroux $23 (0p) ISBN 978-0-374-29203-4
No one will ever be able to claim that HYeg doesn't know how to hook a reader. The newest ecothriller by the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow opens with the deceptively simple sentence: ""An ape was approaching London."" What the vague syntax and...
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Peter Hoeg, Author, Tiina Nunnally, Translator, Peter Heg, Author Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc $21 (453p) ISBN 978-0-374-26644-8
The title of this quiet, absorbing suspense novel by a Danish author only suggests the intriguing story it tells. After young Isaiah Christiansen falls from a snow-covered roof in present-day Copenhagen, something about his lone rooftop tracks--and...
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