Barbara Haveland Ordine dei libri (cronologico)

Spring 1999, NATO is bombing Yugoslavia when the impossible happens. One of their indestructible fighter planes is shot down. Someone had obviously been leaking information. Teddy Pedersen, a middle-aged univesity teacher is thrown into the mix that includes murder and a mysterious Eastern Euorpean woman

<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.

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).

From the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow comes this highly imaginative novel, 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.

Peter ha quattordici anni ed è solo. Da sempre. Dopo aberranti esperienze viene accolto in una scuola sperimentale di Copenaghen, specializzata nel recupero di adolescenti disadattati. Gli dovrebbero insegnare a coltivare affetti, a capire la realtà. A diventare uomo, insomma. Ma il percorso di Peter segue vie alternative, al margine o anche fuori da ciò che le ferree regole dell'istituto consentono. Questa è la storia della sua vita e dei due amici che l'hanno condivisa. Questa è la storia che lo stesso Peter racconta a sua figlia...