Peter Høeg
Author
Publisher
Audio Renaissance
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Set in Denmark in the here and now, it centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johan Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt. But an official in a secret government agency known as Department H offers to make the charges disappear if Krone will help them locate "quiet girl", who was once his student and shares his peculiar psychic abilities.
Author
Publisher
Other Press
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Formats
Description
From the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow, an epic novel about faith and the magic of everyday life.
Told from the precocious perspective of fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers’ Children is about three siblings and how they deal with their eccentric parents. Peter’s father is a vicar, his mother is an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the (fictional) island of Finø,...
Told from the precocious perspective of fourteen-year-old Peter, The Elephant Keepers’ Children is about three siblings and how they deal with their eccentric parents. Peter’s father is a vicar, his mother is an artisan, and both are equally and profoundly devout. The family lives on the (fictional) island of Finø,...