Set in a Danish school which seeks to integrate "problem" children into the world of normal ones. It is run on disciplinarian lines, and the narrator, with two of his mates, discovers what the head's game is - it is a sinister one, to do with asserting control over the children's lives.
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PETER HOEG was born in 1957 and followed various callings – dancer, actor, fencer, sailor, mountaineer – before he turned seriously to writing. He published his first novel in 1988, a book which was acclaimed in Denmark by Information as evidence enough that Hoeg was “the foremost writer of his generation”. It is now published in English as The History of Danish Dreams. With the publication of his crime novel Miss Smilla’s Feeling for Snow he achieved an international reputation and found a settled place on the bestseller lists.
A novel of three damaged children suffer the regime of an experimental school where time is an instrument of oppression to be resisted and subverted.
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