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	Amazon.com: The Woman and the Ape: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Peter Høeg, author of the international bestseller Smilla's Sense of Snow, has written a fable that explores our human status as inhabitants of paradise lost, and the trade-off between civilization and freedom.
		Hoeg is brutally satiric of British society and academia as Adam Burden, his evil sister Andrea, the scientific community, the smuggling network, and virtually all other humans are shown to be arrogant in their assumptions about the relationship of men and animals.
		Peter Hoeg throws a slew of themes at the reader (addiction, the divide between humans and animals, the nature of intelligence), but the book never really succeeds in engaging the reader.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140268448?v=glance (2166 words)

	EfreeBuy :: Borderliners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		What Hoeg does succeed at, however, is to show the loneliness and despair children feel when it seems that that there are no options in their lives both physically and emotionally.
		Hoeg also does a masterful job at describing the minutiae experienced by the young when they feel are trapped by school, time, and adults.
		Hoeg's portrayal of childhood and the social forces that shape us stand out admirably, but all in all, his unique approach falls short and ends up muting the overall impact of the book.
	www.efreebuy.com /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0385315082 (1292 words)

	NewStandard: 12/17/96
		Readers can be grateful that Peter Hoeg is a restless man. In life, he's been a dancer, an actor, a fencer and a sailor.
		Peter Hoeg has written an intelligent novel of ideas and slyly disguised it as a light-hearted comedy.
		Like the 18th century philosophers, Peter Hoeg considers thinking to be enjoyable, and in his fiction practices philosophy as one of the lively arts.
	www.s-t.com /daily/12-96/12-17-96/b08ae066.htm (907 words)

	EfreeBuy :: The History of Danish Dreams (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hoeg achieves a rare and seemingly contradictory feat: he criticizes a great many aspects of his country and its society, yet does so in a way that makes his Denmark captivating to non-Danish readers.
		Hoeg tells his story in a series of seven segments which relate to each other, through the lives of a cast of recurring characters and their children and grandchildren, paradigmatic of Denmark's different social classes.
		In one segment, Hoeg includes a recurring device in which several of the most influential figures of 19th-century Denmark --- a business tycoon, an architect, a Socialist rabble-rouser --- are secretly all siblings who have conspired to obscure their shared past as the sons of a small-time crook and a circus performer.
	www.efreebuy.com /index.php?Operation=ItemLookup&ItemId=0385315910 (992 words)

	Tales of the Night : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		So, while social norms and conventions are an important backdrop for the experiences made by Hoeg's characters, ultimately it is one person in particular, often a loner like themselves, who provides them with the experience that will change the course of the entire rest of their lives.
		Peter Hoeg tells his protagonists' stories with as much intelligence as humility, an occasional sense of humor; and most of all, with great empathy, undying even in their most somber moments.
		Not all of these tales are immediately uplifting (and Hoeg's successor novels continue to explore the dark side of the human existence); but they provide ample food for thought and are not to be missed.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/ASIN/0140279733/Tales_of_the_Night.html (604 words)

	Peter Hoeg’s short story is a compelling work of post-modern magical realism, incorporating elements
		Peter Hoeg’s short story “Portrait of the Avant-Garde” is a compelling work of post-modern magical realism conveyed through cool, detached prose.
		According to Hoeg, Simon’s canvases provoke a reaction akin to that from an act of physical violence, leaving the viewer shaken from a “a sound beating” (Hoeg 319), or jarred from “a slap in the face” (Hoeg 318).
		Clearly, Simon’s technique and the content of his paintings conspire with his “faith in the future” (Hoeg 317) to de-sensitize the populace to “the unrelenting cavalcade of machines and horses and military detachments and forest fires” (Hoeg 316) that serve as harbingers of war and advancement.
	www2.potsdam.edu /mausdc/class/317H/sample2.html (1007 words)

	TIMEeurope Magazine \| Heroes 2003 - Helping Hands
		Jamie Oliver, Christina Noble, Magdalena and Hanna Graaf, Nebahat Akkoc, Isidoro Macías, Hannes Urban, Peter Hoeg, Simon Pánek, Dikembe Mutombo
		But Hoeg is unstirred by external pressure, living anonymously with his wife and children in a Copenhagen apartment.
		Peter Hoeg's new novel is an unfortunate ode to windy monkeyshines
	www.time.com /time/europe/hero/hoeg.html (421 words)

	Medialunchbox - Books : Tales of the Night (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Before Peter Hoeg wrote his bestselling "Smilla's Sense of Snow," he crafted eight intriguing short stories in "Tales of the Night." It's a tangle of the heart and mind, art and culture, with a dark atmosphere and very good writing.
		Peter Hoeg is one of the greatest writers of these years.
		hoeg paints repressed life in denmark with great skill, and the final story, about a telescope maker, is wonderfully unreal.
	www.medialunchbox.com /ItemId/0140279733 (394 words)

	Peter Hoeg: a review of his novel The Woman and the Ape
		Hoeg, now in his early 40s, actually drifted towards authorhood via a background with a Boy's Ownish tinge - he had been variously a cleaner, an actor, a fencer (with epees rather than hardwood posts), a sailor ("on rich people's boats"), a mountaineer, and latterly a dancer with the Royal Danish Ballet.
		It also meant Hoeg needed to stand and deliver a hit, quickly, if he was to retain his widespread but diminishing readership's attention.
		Hoeg amuses as much as he bemuses, and if he ever gets his prodigious capabilities under control, he will be a writer of giant significance.
	members.optusnet.com.au /~waldrenm/hoeg.html (1029 words)

	ValerieWebb.com - Biography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Kristin Hoeg was born on December 29, 1990 in a small town outside of New Paltz, New York.
		Peter Kansas was born on July, 7th, 1989 in Albany, New York.
		Peter played percussion in grade school, was in choir in middle school and took up guitar in high school.
	www.valeriewebb.com /bio.htm (624 words)

	SALON Daily Clicks \| Sneak Peeks
		Hoeg has tried to write what might best be termed a feminist/animal-liberationist/futurist/social-disaster thriller, and the result is half bird and half rhino — an ungainly monster that never gets off the ground.
		Hoeg deftly shows Madelene's entrapment by her social and marital status, and he parallels this with the societal imprisonment of The Ape and all other animals.
		Hoeg's intentions are obviously genuinely charitable (he is donating all proceeds of this book to a self-started fund that helps Third World women and children).
	www.salon.com /sneaks/sneakpeeks961114.html (392 words)

	Woman and the Ape
		Madelene is fascinating, even as a drunk, and she completely captures your attention when she shifts her considerable application and intelligence onto a project more engaging than her daily facial resurrection and her stealthy acquisition of alcohol.
		In a chilling passage, she disparages the modest difficulties God faced on the sixth day as He prepared to create the animals and man. Challenging Madelene's simplistic romantic notions about the natural world, Andrea forces her to contemplate how evil, how cruel and vicious, nature actually is and what vile lives wild animals actually lead.
		Hoeg can write slapstick comedy, as when Madelene brings Erasmus to a formal Danish Society reception disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair.
	www.springharborpress.com /woman&ape.htm (787 words)

	DOUGLAS PAYNE: REVIEWS
		Mixing the lurid premise of a rich mystery thriller with the genuine class of a literate novel, Peter Hoeg immediately captured this reader's attention with the title character.
		Smilla is a strong-willed, bright, intuitive and deeply sensitive woman (and tries to prove she's anything but) who develops an obsession with the strange death of a neighbor boy who, she's surprised to discover, has had deep impact on her life.
		You don't have to be smart or literate to appreciate this novel, but Hoeg manages to create a multi-textured world of spirits that will appeal to many levels of different readers.
	www.dougpayne.com /dwpbook.htm (421 words)

	Denmark on the Edge, March 19, 1929 / Hoeg's otherworldly stories seem to foreshadow country's coming loss of innocence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hoeg doesn't spell out why this is, but it does allow him to portray a Denmark entranced with modern achievements in the arts and sciences, yet innocent of the upcoming Depression of the '30s and Nazi occupation in the '40s.
		As Hoeg outlines the sexual frustrations that underscore these consummate stage performances, he also illuminates a paradox: that for any performer, ``real life'' may reside more in what one acts out before an audience than in how one conducts oneself outside the theater.
		Hoeg the storyteller sometimes gives way to Hoeg the metaphysician, and occasionally his musings become unhelpfully abstract.
	www.sfgate.com /cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/1998/02/15/RV35301.DTL (842 words)

	Denver Post Online: Books & Authors (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hoeg, whose most recent work is "The Woman and the Ape,'' prefaces his early stories with this explanation: "These eight stories are linked by a date and motif.
		Hoeg's debt to Hans Christian Andersen, who hovers over "Danish Dreams,'' can often be felt in his dark fairy tales for our time, in his ironic versions of Danish history.
		Hoeg is a born storyteller, and his creations reverberate with a sense of the hazards and mysteries of love.
	extras.denverpost.com /books/book191.htm (434 words)

	Hoeg Smilla's Sense Of Snow, Peter Hoeg When The Writer Has Additional Capabilities, Which Hoeg Posse (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Smilla's Sense of Snow, PETER HOEG When the writer has additional capabilities, which Hoeg possesses in abundance, reading becomes a joy with footprints in the snow.
		Peter Høg is a respected Danish author and well-known throughout the world.
		The Woman and the Ape, Barbara Haveland, Peter Hoeg the story, mostly due to the fact that Hoeg is telling me everything, never showing me anything so Peter Hoeg is one of those rare writers.
	www.99hosted.com /names10064.html (312 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Borderliners (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		The narrator, Peter, is now a student at Biehl's after spending all of his life in children's homes and reform schools.
		Hoeg intertwined flashbacks with historical tidbits, but once one gets into it, one realizes we are not SUPPOSED to know everything.
		This fresh and compelling new novel by Peter Hoeg the author of the dark yet captivating "Smilla's Sense of Snow" is like a journey into Einstein's brain - a cruise into the inner reaches of time.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0385315082 (829 words)

	Scandinavian Studies: Peter Hoeg or the sense of writing.@ HighBeam Research (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Peter Hoeg's writing is an experiment with time, where stories do not progress in a linear but in a circular fashion.
		Hoeg's writing is based in dialectical relationships but he adds his own depiction of time.
		Time is also the key metaphor for Hoeg's criticism of modern culture and the overt theme for his characters' actions.
	www.highbeam.com /library/doc0.asp?DOCID=1G1:19398303&refid=holomed_1 (209 words)

	Eye - BOOKS: Orderlines -- Peter Hoeg - 01.19.95 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		While the English title of Peter Hoeg's (Smilla's Sense Of Snow) awesome new novel is an appropriate one, something crucial is lost in the translation from the Danish original.
		At the centre of the novel is Peter, an orphan placed in a private boarding school where the traditional Danish educational ideal of lifting the downtrodden up to the light through education has been perverted and is practised without a shred of humanity.
		Telling his story as an adult from what he calls his laboratory, Peter (who eventually reveals his last name to be Hoeg) reveals the experiments in education carried out in the early 1970s to find ways to make useful citizens out of misfit children.
	www.eye.net /eye/issue/issue_01.19.95/ARTS/bo0119a.htm (258 words)

	Borderliners : Reviews, Prices, Deals
		Although this story is more than a rebellion against the system, Peter Hoeg's tender account of life in the Danish Care system thirty years ago is a stunning and emotional journey.
		Hoeg is one of those writers who seems to capture moments that we all understand and have experienced and uses them to take us into situations that we could never understand or experience.
		Please read this book, it is wonderful, especially as an introduction to Peter Hoeg's writing.
	www.medfools.com /shopuk/product/ASIN/0385315082/Borderliners.html (147 words)

	Peter Høeg (Writer) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Peter Høeg is a respected Danish author and well-known throughout the world.
		His acclaimed novels have been translated into many languages.
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	www.mts.net /~mloewen1/smilla/hoeg.html (100 words)

	Tribuneindia... Modern Classics
		The pleasure and the pain of his characters, the euphoria of happiness and the ache of grief, is always the storyteller’s own.
		Beaten down by his brutal orphanage childhood, Peter becomes a psychotic, wrestling with the demons of anxiety and despair that "the absolutely normal pupils" around him can hardly guess at.
		In his third ear, Peter is drawn to the brilliant, self-destructive older teenager, Katarina.
	www.tribuneindia.com /1999/99jan31/sunday/modern.htm (874 words)

	ORPHANED LIVES, CLOSE TO THE BORDERS
		But fans of Hoeg's earlier work may be disappointed by Borderliners, which is a hard-to-follow and, ultimately, less compelling read.
		According to the narrative, Hoeg was eventually adopted in his teens.
		Hoeg's beautiful writing expresses the passion he brings to the subject of children and their well-being.
	scholar.lib.vt.edu /VA-news/VA-Pilot/issues/1994/vp941218/12140400.htm (712 words)

	Amazon.com: Smilla's Sense of Snow: Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-29)
		Hoeg may have given her a passion for clothes, but that does not a woman make.
		Hoeg was only in his early 30s when he wrote it.
		Peter Høeg is an amazing author, and I was very impressed with the English translation as well.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385315147?v=glance (1763 words)

	Borderliners by Peter Hoeg
		Immediately, Peter is drawn to the school's outsiders: Katarina, recently orphaned, with whom he has fallen in love; and August, a psychotic boy who murdered his parents after years of abuse.
		The three begin to realize that they and the other students at Biehl's are part of a bizarre, brutal experiment that alters their sense of time and will tragically change their lives forever.
		Peter Handoslash;eg, a native Dane, was a professional dancer and actor as well as a sailor, fencer, and mountaineer before becoming a writer.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385315081&view=rg (911 words)

	Smilla Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg - read review
		After Smilla's Sense of Snow, I wanted to read more from Peter Hoeg, but I was expecting similar style and genre, which this isn't.
		This novel was translated by Barbara Haveland who has also recently translated Stella Descending.
		Peter Hoeg was born in 1957 in Copenhagen.
	www.mostlyfiction.com /mystery/hoeg.htm (469 words)

	Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg
		It was difficult but it was also fun," Peter Høeg has said.
		For her dead neighbor, and for herself, she must embark on a harrowing journey of lies, revelation and violence that will take her back to the world of ice and snow from which she comes, where an explosive secret waits beneath the ice....
		Peter Høeg, born in Denmark in 1957, pursued various interests--he was a professional dancer, an actor, a sailor, a fencer, and a mountaineer--before turning seriously to writing.
	www.randomhouse.com /catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0385315147&view=rg (906 words)

	Rosetta Books - Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg - eBook available for download
		In this international bestseller, Peter Høeg successfully combines the pleasures of literary fiction with those of the thriller.
		Smilla Jaspersen, half Danish, half Greenlander, attempts to understand the death of a small boy who falls from the roof of her apartment building.
		Peter Høeg is a respected Danish author and well known throughout the world.
	www.rosettabooks.com /pages/title_209.html (285 words)

	Barnes & Noble.com - Smilla's Sense of Snow - Peter Hoeg - Paperback
		With the help of another neighbor, dyslexic mechanic Peter Fjl, Smilla follows a trail from the White Palace through the Cryolite records of a fateful (and fatal) 1966 expedition, and ends up aboard the Kronos, a smuggling ship stuffed with drugs and desperate characters and bound for Greenland's Barren Glacier and a truly unimaginable cargo.
		Smilla is the most interesting female character to come along in a very long time; and to think that she was created by a man! The story is very good; I have to revisit the ending because I'm not sure what Peter Hoeg is telling us by it.
		I urge you not to give up on Smilla; she is complicated, and sometimes her thoughts take a page or two to wind up; I promise you the journey is worth your time if you are intelligent, questioning, and willing to follow Smilla on her difficult path.
	search.barnesandnoble.com /booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=OD3nh3RB0U&isbn=0385315147&itm=1 (1530 words)

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