Buy this book on-line HOEG**, PETER: : THE QUIET GIRLLONDON.HARVILL SECKER,2007. ISBN 9781846550591.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Originally published with the title 'Den stille pige' in 2006 by Rosinante,Copenhagen.Translated from the Danish by Nadia Christensen.Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+. No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright,crisp,clean, matt,wrap-around monochrome photographic illustrated dw/dj,with b/w hand lettering and white lettered critics' reviews to rear panel of dw/dj; with negligible shelf-wear and creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.A minor,tiny indent to front panel of dw/dj and just lightly affecting the board beneath.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners, appears unread - apart from my own collation. Publisher's bright,crisp,clean,sharp-cornered, original,plain black cloth boards with bright, crisp,blocked silver gilt letters to spine/backstrip and immaculate plain black endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,3-406pp [paginated] includes Pts I-VIII comprising 17,6,14,4, 7,7,9 and 5 chapters respectively; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,Acknowledgements,2 double-page b/w area maps (Copenhagen city insert to first map; 2nd map Copenhagen city street map) and Pts separator pages.
Set in Denmark in the here and now,'The Quiet Girl' centres around Kaspar Krone,a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach,and an even deeper gambling debt. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition,Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help in safeguarding a group of children with mystical abilities.When one of the children goes missing a year later,Krone sets off to find the young girl and bring her back,making a shocking series of discoveries along the way about her identity and the true intentions of his young wards.
'The Quiet Girl' pits art and spirituality against corporate interests and nothing less than the will to war by the industrialised world.
A long-awaited novel from the author of 'Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow' (his 2nd book),is a fast-paced philosophical thriller of rare quality.
This is Hoeg's sixth book,published following a ten-year break from writing,a wonderfully complex thriller in the same mode as his highly popular Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (UK) and/or Smilla's Sense of Snow (US).
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