Tales of the Night - Peter Hoeg

The random particle collisions known as love. (1514 words)
by pje - written on 19/03/02, updated on 20/03/02 (Very useful, 307 readings)
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Saturn in your name, instead of a boring old letter 'o'. Y'know if he'd been British, everyone would have assumed that it was a crossed-out letter 'o' and called him Peter Heg! Now I first came across that little picture of Saturn (I'm sure Malu or alkaliguru will tell us its proper name in the comments) while reading a book called Contact Lost by Leif Hamre when I was a lad. Contact Lost won the Norwegian State Prize for the best children's book, but it hasn't made my Top Ten Children's Books - which is now due around Easter by the way. ;¬) (By the way, does anyone know why one of those little pictures of Saturn appears just ...

Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg

Ice and Fire (1068 words)
by MALU - written on 07/02/01, updated on 09/10/04 (Very useful, 224 readings)
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Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow - Peter Hoeg

The wonderful Miss Jaspersen (116 words)
by liminal - written on 21/01/01, updated on 21/01/01 (Somewhat useful, 91 readings)
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Hoeg is an author who knows how to gain your trust. The novel opens with the apparently accidental death of a small boy falling from a roof in Copenhagen. Smilla Jaspersen knows better than to make the obvious assumption, and her astounding stubbonness and tenacity draw the reader deeper and deeper into the background to the boy's death. ...