Barbara Haveland Knihy

Ni fortællinger, som er fælles om en dato og et motiv: de handler alle om kærligheden og dens betingelser, om natten den 19. marts 1929

Strange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. The school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. Soon, they suspect they are guinea pigs in a bizarre social experiment and that their only hope of escape is to break through a dangerous threshold of time and space. Peter Høeg's "brilliant" and dystopian Borderliners is a "uniquely philosophical thriller" ( Boston Sunday Globe ) and a haunting story of childhood travail and hope.

Spring 1999, NATO is bombing Yugoslavia when the impossible happens. One of their indestructible fighter planes is shot down. Someone had obviously been leaking information. Teddy Pedersen, a middle-aged univesity teacher is thrown into the mix that includes murder and a mysterious Eastern Euorpean woman

Keď v roku 1988 vyšlo toto autorovo dielo, spôsobilo senzáciu. Kniha je svéráznymi dejinami dánskych snov, teda (nezriedka idealizovaných) predstáv, ktoré si Dánovia o sebe vytvárali v posledných približne päťsto rokoch. Autor sa s nimi a predovšetkým s ich odvrátenou stranou nemilosrdne vyrovnáva v duchu magického realizmu a jeho neobmedzených možností, s nadsázkou, čiernym humorom a sarkastickým šklebom. V tomto románe sa prvýkrát objavujú témy a motívy, ktoré spisovateľ rozvíja vo svojich ďalších dielach.