Description

Title: History of Danish Dreams

Author: Peter Høeg

ISBN: 9780312428013

Publisher: Picador

Published: 2008

Binding: Paperback

Language: English

Edition: First Edition

Condition Note: Clean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.

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From the author of
Smilla’s Sense of Snow
comes this highly imaginative novel, “wonderful in scope . . . crammed with Danish history, social realism, satire, magic realism, high romance, and sexual
goings-on” (
Newsday
).

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.