The Woman and the Ape - Couverture rigide

Hoeg, Peter

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0374292035 ISBN 13 : 9780374292034

Editeur : Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc, 1996

Synopsis

An emotional and erotic love affair develops between Madelene, the beautiful, disillusioned wife of Adam Burden, and Erasmus, the intelligent ape brought to the Burdens' London home after escaping animal smugglers. 100,000 first printing.

A propos du livre

Biographie de l'auteur

Peter Høeg was born in 1957 and followed various callings - dancer, actor, sailor, mountaineer - before he turned seriously to writing. After publishing his first novel, The History of Danish Dreams, in 1988, and a volume of short stories he went on to write an innovative crime novel, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, which assured him an international reputation. The variety of his talent was amply demonstrated with his subsequent novel, Borderliners, a remarkable study of children that caused controversy within Denmark and beyond.

Barabara Haveland, a Scot married to a Norwegian, and resident in Denmark, has translated Peter Høeg's Borderliners and his first novel, The History of Danish Dreams. She is also translator of Solvej Balle's According to the Law.

Revue de presse

"The Woman and the Ape has many arrestingly stylish and inventive passages and an overall brilliance of tone that shows once again the originality of Mr. Hoeg's voice" (New York Times)

"No imaginative writer working today is any more daring than Danish novelist Peter Hoeg... An utterly original mix of fantasy, fable, myth, and love story" (Backlist)

"Høeg is a writer determined to make new footprints in the snow" (Guardian)

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Farrar, Straus & Giroux Inc
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0374292035
• ISBN 13: 9780374292034
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 261
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible