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de Peter Hoeg
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Høeg built his bestselling mystery, Smilla's Sense of Snow, around the science of ice. In this labyrinthine, intellectual thriller, Høeg focuses on the nature of sound, and in particular the music of Bach. In a near future where an earthquake and resulting flood have submerged a portion of the city of Copenhagen, Kasper Krone, a world-famous clown and passionate Bach fan, is about to be deported for not paying his taxes. But an official in a secret government agency known as Department H offers to make the charges disappear if Krone will help them locate a young girl, KlaraMaria, who was once his student and shares his peculiar psychic abilities. The blend of science, erudition and slow revelations could only have been written by Høeg, and will appeal to his many fans and other readers with a taste for the literary offbeat. (Nov.)
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Hoeg, author of the international best-seller Smilla's Sense of Snow (1993), returns with another demanding, often befuddling, but unquestionably daring philosophical novel. Hoeg's vision has grown steadily darker over the years, from Borderliners, which concerned a group of innocent children struggling to survive a world of life-draining institutions; through The Woman and the Ape (an even more audacious tour de force of genre bending than Smilla), which concluded that there was no escape from the deathly pallor of civilization; and on to this novel, which seems to suggest that even children are not entirely to be trusted. The hero here is a world-famous circus clown and violinist, Kaspar Krone, who possesses a mystical ability to identify an individual's personality in terms of the sounds and musical keys that emanate from them. His special talent brings him in contact with a group of children who also possess mystical powers—perhaps even the ability to alter physical reality. One of those children, the "quiet girl" of the title, has disappeared, and Krone is compelled to rescue her from the madman who seems determined to use the children to create panic in Copenhagen's financial institutions. Or possibly it is the quiet girl who is doing the manipulating. On one level, the novel is a forward-thrusting, suspenseful thriller, but on another, it asks confounding questions about the nature of reality and the possibility of love in a world devoid of innocence. Some readers may conclude that the novel spins out of control, untethered to any form of reality, but even they will respect Hoeg's genius for stretching the bounds of narrative fiction in altogether new directions. Ott, Bill
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