The Quiet Girl

ISBN-13: 9780099507352 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 416 str.

Peter Hoeg

Opis

Set in Denmark, 'The Quiet Girl' features Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. He finds himself in the service of a mysterious order of nuns who want him to protect a group of children with mystical abilities.

Recenzje

Superb new novel...At once intricate and explosive, The Quiet Girl is elegantly written and furiously plotted, resonant (though not acoustically) of Philip Pullman's Dark Materials trilogy and also David Mamet's elaborately staged deceptions Independent on Sunday

O autorze

Peter Høeg was born in 1957 and followed various callings - dancer, actor, fencer, sailor, mountaineer - before he turned seriously to writing. He published his first novel, The History of Danish Dreams, in 1988, and was called 'the foremost writer of his generation' by Information magazine. His crime novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow received universal acclaim and was an international bestseller.