Per la polizia non ci sono dubbi: è stato un incidente. Il piccolo Esajas correva sul tetto innevato quando è caduto, rimanendo ucciso. Ma Smilla non è convinta; ha visto le impronte lasciate dal bambino e la neve le dice che non si è trattato di un incidente...
Una storia d'amore tra una donna e una specie di scimmia ancora sconosciuta, un antropoide di straordinaria intelligenza simile all'uomo. La coppia fugge insieme e vive per qualche tempo una vita selvaggia e spregiudicata, sopra i tetti di Londra. Ma la scimmia tuttavia è arrivata in Inghilterra con una missione da compiere, e sarà proprio l'ultimo colpo di scena a rivelarci le origini e lo scopo della sua presenza tra gli uomini.
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...
Høeg es el aclamado autor de 'La señorita Smila y su especial percepción de la nieve', novela que fue llevada al cine, nos deleita con una novela donde nada es lo que parece. Nunca es demasiado tarde para tener una infancia feliz. Creo que es cierto. Pero a veces es un problema.No hay complicaciones, sólo retos, sostiene Tilde Fin?. Sí, eso es lo que ella y sus hermanos Peter y Hans se encuentran: son desafíos astronómicos, cuando sus padres desaparecen de repente. Unos padres que han estado previamente bajo vigilancia policial por timos relacionados con los milagros. Con delincuentes comunes como padres, la mayoría de los niños sentirían un gran alivio cuando éstos desaparecieran. Pero no los tres hermanos. En la huida de la policía, la lucha contra el tiempo, a través del ambiente social de los nobles, los criminales y los religiosos, los niños están constantemente tratando de averiguar dónde han ido sus padres. En el camino, se enfrentan a las preguntas fundamentales de la existencia, a conflictos políticos y obstáculos insalvables. Pero pueden ser superados con ingenio y fe en una puerta hacia la libertad, aunque todos los caminos parezcan cerrados…
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.
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 universea 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 forcesnamely, 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.
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 with mystical abilities. When one of the children goes missing a year later, Krone sets off to find the young girl and bring her back, making a shocking series of discoveries along the way about her identity and the true intentions of his young wards. The Quiet Girl pits art and spirituality against corporate interests and nothing less than the will to war by the industrialized world. This long-awaited novel from the author of Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow is a fast-paced philosophical thriller of rare quality.
You'll tell her your darkest secrets 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. But there are some powerful people determined to stop her.
Žijeme v době, která je plná podnětů, takže člověk neví, co má dělat dřív. Žijeme rovněž obklopeni násilím a nepochopením. Podle autorů této knihy je úkolem všech, kdo se podílejí na výchově dětí, pěstovat jejich schopnost spočinout v sobě, vnímat vlastní pocity, navázat se sebou kontakt. Tak se děti naučí vcítit se nejen do sebe, ale i do druhého – prohloubí schopnost empatie, s níž se všechny děti rodí, ale ne každé dítě tuto dovednost rozvine. K tomu autoři předkládají svůj model pěti přirozených kompetencí, jež souvisejí s tělem, dechem, srdcem, tvořivostí a uvědomováním. V knize je vysvětleno, co je empatie, čím může přispět dnešnímu světu a jak ji konkrétně pěstovat. Část knihy se proto věnuje návrhům na cvičení empatie pro rodiče, terapeuty či pedagogy.
