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The History of Danish Dreams

A Novel

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<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.

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The History of Danish Dreams, Peter Høeg, Barbara Haveland

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Rok vydání
2008
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Titul
The History of Danish Dreams
Podtitul
A Novel
Jazyk
anglicky
Vydavatel
Picador
Rok vydání
2008
Vazba
měkká
Počet stran
416
ISBN10
0312428014
ISBN13
9780312428013
Série
První vydání
1988
Původní název
Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede
Hodnocení
3,5 z 5
Anotace
<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.