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The Woman and the Ape(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Peter Høeg, Barbara Haveland, Peter Eg, Peter Hã¸Eg
Paperback, 272 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42712-2, ISBN: 0-312-42712-3

"The Woman and the Ape is the story of a unique and unforgettable couple--Madelene and Erasmus. Madelene is the wife of Adam Burden, a distinguished behavioral scientist. Erasmus--the unlikely prince--is a 300-pound ape. Brought to the Burdens' London home after escaping from animal smugglers, Erasmus is discovered to be a highly intelligent anthropoid ape, the closest thing yet to a human being. Madelene decides to save Erasmus, and bet ..."






Woman and the Ape(Updated)
(Panther)
by Peter Høeg, Peter Eg, Barbara Haveland
Paperback, 240 Pages, Published 1997 by Harvill Pr
ISBN-13: 978-1-86046-368-6, ISBN: 1-86046-368-1

"From the internationally acclaimed author of Smilla's Sense of Snow comes a dazzling leap of imagination--a tale as sensitive as it is suspenseful, as profound as it is provocative. Madelene, the beautiful, lonely, alcoholic wife of behavioral scientist Adam Burden, is pacing the confines of their opulent London home when she comes upon her husband's secret captive. Erasmus is a 300-pound ape who, if rigorous tests prove him a hitherto ..."






The Woman and the Ape(1st Edition)
by Peter Hoeg, Peter Eg, Barbara Haveland
Hardcover, 224 Pages, Published 1997 by The Harvill Press
Import
ISBN-13: 978-1-86046-254-2, ISBN: 1-86046-254-5

"General FictionLarge Print EditionHoeg is an adventurous and intelligent writer whose future course seems happily, impossible to predict . . . one of the essential contemporary novelists. starred, Kirkus ReviewsNo imaginative writer today is more daring than Danish novelist Peter Hoeg. starred, Booklist* A Literary Guild Main SelectionAn hour after nightfall the ape rose, wrapped an arm around Madelene, parted the screen of leaves at a ..."






The Susan Effect
by Peter Høeg, Martin Aitken, Peter Eg
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2018 by Random House Uk
ISBN-13: 978-1-78470-226-7, ISBN: 1-78470-226-9

"Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy and there is a prison sentence hanging over her head. Then Susan gets a timely offer from a former government official: use her power one more time and have all charges dropped. To get her l ..."






The Susan Effect
(Dutch Edition)
by Peter Høeg, Peter Eg, Martin Aitken
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Harvill Secker
ISBN-13: 978-1-910701-30-0, ISBN: 1-910701-30-0

"Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an Indian casino. To make matters worse, her husband is on the run from the mafia, one of her children has been accused of antiquity smuggling and the other has run off with a monk. But Susan g ..."






The History Of Danish Dreams
by Peter Eg, Peter Høeg
Paperback, 352 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-959973-9, ISBN: 0-09-959973-2

"Edition The Harvill Press, First Impression, 1996. English translation by Barbara Haveland. ISBN: 1-86046-114-X. PAPER BACK. 339 pages, size: 15.1 x 23.2 x 3 cm. Just light tan to paper edges. Other than that the book remains in very condition throughout. Text all clean, neat and tight. Prompt dispatch from UK."






Smilla's Sense of Snow(20th Edition)
A Novel
by Peter Hoeg, Tiina Nunnally, Peter Eg
Paperback, 512 Pages, Published 2012 by Picador
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-1-250-00255-6, ISBN: 1-250-00255-9

"A Time Best Book of the Year - An Entertainment Weekly Best Book of the Year - A People Best Book of the Year - Winner of the CWA Silver Dagger Award - A Finalist for the Edgar Award for Best Mystery Novel - -Seductive... a superbly constructed thriller.----People - -Splendid entertainment...The suspense novel as exploration of the heart.----The New York Times Book Review - -Astonishing... Like John le Carre and Graham Greene before him ..."






Borderliners(Updated)
(Harvill Panther)
by Peter Hoeg, Peter Eg
Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 1996 by The Harvill Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-86046-143-9, ISBN: 1-86046-143-3

"Some people got no stars. A lot got one, some got two. A very few managed three . If you got three stars three times in a row you also received the honour of a brown paper bag full of fruit. In the two years for which this system had been running only Regner Grasten, who went on to become a film producer and very famous, ever got fruit, and only once. August was now lying down altogether. He was shaking. I tried to understand him — ..."






The Susan Effect
(Dutch Edition)
by Peter Høeg, Peter Eg, Martin Aitken
Hardcover, 352 Pages, Published 2017 by Harvill Secker
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-1-910701-29-4, ISBN: 1-910701-29-7

"Susan Svendsen has a special talent: she has a unique ability to make people confide in her and tell her their innermost secrets. She has exploited that talent, and now has a prison sentence hanging over her head for punching a Bollywood actor in an Indian casino. To make matters worse, her husband is on the run from the mafia, one of her children has been accused of antiquity smuggling and the other has run off with a monk. But Susan ..."






Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow
by Peter Hoeg, Peter Eg
Paperback, Published 2015 by Vintage Classics
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-959992-0, ISBN: 0-09-959992-9

"One snowy day in Copenhagen, six-year-old Isaiah falls to his death from a city rooftop.The police pronounce it an accident. But Isaiah's neighbour, Smilla, suspects murder.She embarks on a dangerous quest to find the truth, following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow."






Tales Of The Night
by Peter Eg, Peter Hoeg
Paperback, 320 Pages, Published 2015 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-959974-6, ISBN: 0-09-959974-0






Borderliners
(Paperback)
by Peter Eg, Peter Høeg
Paperback, 252 Pages, Published 2014 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-959972-2, ISBN: 0-09-959972-4

"Three emotionally damaged children were all under assessment in Biehl's experimental school, they were all borderliners. Fully alert to their guinea-pig status they attempt to escape and expose its oppresive mechanisms."






The Elephant Keepers' Children. Die Kinder der Elefantenhüter, englische Ausgabe
by Peter Høeg, Peter Eg, Martin Aitken
Paperback, 400 Pages, Published 2013 by Vintage
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-956946-6, ISBN: 0-09-956946-9

"Peter and Tilte are trying to track down two notorious criminals: their parents. They are the pastor and the organist, respectively, of the only church on the tiny island of Finø. Known for fabricating cheap miracles to strengthen their congregation's faith, they have been in trouble before. But this time their children suspect they are up to mischief on a far greater scale. When Peter and Tilte learn that scientific and religious leade ..."






The Elephant Keepers’ Children -
by Peter Hoeg, Peter Eg, Martin Aitken, Mr Kirby Heyborne
Cd, Published 2012 by Blackstone Audiobooks
Audiobook, Mp3 Audio
ISBN-13: 978-1-4708-1066-5, ISBN: 1-4708-1066-2

"[MP3CD audiobook format in vinyl case.] [Translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken] Told from the perspective of precocious fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers' Children is about three siblings and how they deal with life alongside their eccentric parents. Peter's father is a vicar, his mother an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the fictional island of Finø, where people of all faiths ..."






The Elephant Keepers' Children
by Peter Eg, Peter Hoeg, Martin Aitken
Hardcover, 400 Pages, Published 2012 by Harvill Secker
ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-584-8, ISBN: 1-84655-584-1

"Peter and Tilte are trying to track down two notorious criminals: their parents. They are the pastor and the organist, respectively, of the only church on the tiny island of Finø. Known for fabricating cheap miracles to strengthen their congregation's faith, they have been in trouble before. But this time their children suspect they are up to mischief on a far greater scale. When Peter and Tilte learn that scientific and religious leade ..."






Quiet Girl
by Peter Hoeg, Peter Eg
Paperback, 416 Pages, Published 2008 by Vintage Books Usa
International Edition
ISBN-13: 978-0-09-950735-2, ISBN: 0-09-950735-8

"Set in Denmark in the here and now, "The Quiet Girl" centres around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann 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 w ..."






Borderliners(1st Edition)
A Novel
by Peter Høeg, Peter Eg, Barbara Haveland
Paperback, 277 Pages, Published 2007 by Picador
Mobipocket_Ebook
ISBN-13: 978-0-312-42711-5, ISBN: 0-312-42711-5

"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 da ..."






The Quiet Girl
Unabridged Audiobook on CD
by Peter Hoeg, Translator-Nadia Christensen, Peter Eg, James Gale, Reader-James Gale
Published 2007 by Macmillan Audio
ISBN-13: 978-1-4272-0216-1, ISBN: 1-4272-0216-8






Quiet Girl, The
by Peter Hoeg, Peter Eg
Paperback, 406 Pages, Published 2007 by Harvill Secker
ISBN-13: 978-1-84655-060-7, ISBN: 1-84655-060-2






Tales Of The Night(Updated)
by Peter Eg, Peter Hoeg, . Barbara Haveland
Paperback, 308 Pages, Published 1998 by The Harvill Press
ISBN-13: 978-1-86046-504-8, ISBN: 1-86046-504-8



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