Sunday Tribune
`beautifully written, full of Siberian sadness and with a graceful, acrobatic narrative technique. It's a rollicking good yarn'.
Financial Times
`In Hoeg's hallucinatory prose, Copenhagen has a sinister near-future feel... there are also passages of lyrical beauty'
Daily Mail
`The Quiet Girl has Hoeg's best-selling hallmarks'
Literary Review
`If you're wanting intellectual liveliness and originality (and lots of Bach), look no further'
Book Description
The long awaited new novel from the author of
Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.
Independent
'All is illuminated by the author's passionate interest, his flashes of sparkling wit'
Scotland on Sunday
`Hoeg is an able storyteller ... he writes entertainingly, at times lyrically, at times scathingly. The text is full of "little golden eggs"'
Independent on Sunday
`Superb new novel... At once intricate and explosive, The Quiet Girl is elegantly written and furiously plotted...'
Guardian
`striking and deeply felt... confirms that Hoeg is a writer determined to make new footprints in the snow'
London Lite
'reverberating with clattering noise and overflowing with musical prose... bewitching... the sublimely sonorous tale will reward you'.
Product Description
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 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 industrialized world. This long-awaited novel from the author of Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow is a fast-paced philosophical thriller of rare quality.
About the Author
Born in 1957, Peter Høeg published his first novel in 1988, having followed various callings - dancer, actor, fencer, sailor, mountaineer - before turning seriously to writing. With his second novel, Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow, he has become an internationally acclaimed writer.
