Barbara Haveland Livres

These stories, which vary in theme but all bear the mark of Peter Hoeg's graceful and thoughtful prose, are set in eight separate corners of the world. On this fateful night, a young mathematician encounters Joseph Conrad during a train ride through the war-torn Congo in "Journey into a Dark Heart; " a pair of star-crossed lovers in Lisbon dance through their memories of the Danish ballet in "Hommage to Bournonville; " a seaside community struggles with the threat of a smallpox epidemic in "Pity for the Children of Vaden Town; " and in "The Verdict of Ignatio Lanstad Rasker", an idealistic young writer is prosecuted for his homosexuality by the conservative Lord Chief Justice of Denmark. Illuminating, acrobatic, and enriched with historical fact and foreshadowing, the stories in Tales of the Night should "consolidate Hoeg's reputation as one of the world's most versatile authors" (Seattle Times).

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. The school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. Soon, they suspect 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.

Teddy, politologue danois en visite en Europe de l'Est, rencontre Maria qui prétend être sa demi-soeur. De retour à Copenhague, il apprend qu'un homme occupant la chambre d'hôtel qu'il vient de quitter a été tué, et qu'Irma, sa soeur, a été arrêtée pour espionnage. Per Toftlund, policier chargé d'interroger Irma, enquête avec Teddy sur Maria. Prix des ambassadeurs francophones du Danemark 2004

Qu'avons-nous "redouté, espéré et rêvé tout au long de ce siècle" ? Aux yeux de Peter Hoeg, la réponse à cette énigme ne peut être recherchée qu'au Danemark. C'est là, en effet, que se trouve le centre du monde. Le comte de Morkhoj l'a justement localisé près du tas de fumier du château et le temps s'est arrêté sur ses terres. Quant aux Teander, ces capitalistes qui règnent sur un empire de presse, ils ont de l'Histoire une conception toute particulière... L'histoire des rêves danois, accueilli par la critique comme "le meilleur premier roman de la décennie", multiplie ainsi tempêtes, personnages hauts en couleur, fables fantastiques et parvient à créer un univers étonnant où le Temps est tour à tour le maître et l'esclave de l'esprit des hommes.

<b>From the author of </b><b> <i>Smilla's Sense of Snow </i> </b><b>comes this highly imaginative novel, "wonderful in scope . . . crammed with Danish history, social realism, satire, magic realism, high romance, and sexual </b><b>goings-on" (</b><b> <i>Newsday</i> </b><b>).</b> <b></b> <b></b>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.