Bücher von Peter Hoeg

National BestsellerStrange 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. But the school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. The children soon suspect that 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.

The Woman and the Ape is the story of a unique and unforgettable couple--Madelene and Erasmus. Madelene is the wife of Adam Burden, a distinguished behavioral scientist. Erasmus--the unlikely prince--is a 300-pound ape. Brought to the Burdens' London home after escaping from animal smugglers, Erasmus is discovered to be a highly intelligent anthropoid ape, the closest thing yet to a human being. Madelene decides to save Erasmus, and between them blossoms a profound affection as deep as any human relationship. A fable for our time, The Woman and the Ape poses searching questions about the nature of love, freedom, and humanity.

She thinks more highly of snow and ice than she does of love. She lives in a world of numbers, science and memories--a dark, exotic stranger in a strange land. And now Smilla Jaspersen is convinced she has uncovered a shattering crime...It happened in the Copenhagen snow. A six-year-old boy, a Greenlander like Smilla, fell to his death from the top of his apartment building. While the boy's body is still warm, the police pronounce his death an accident. But Smilla knows her young neighbor didn't fall from the roof on his own. Soon she is following a path of clues as clear to her as footsteps in the snow. 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....

"Eine aberwitzige Verbindung von Thriller und hoher Literatur." (Der Spiegel)Im Kopenhagener Hafenviertel stürzt ein Junge vom Dach eines Lagerhauses. Todesursache laut Polizeibericht: ein Unfall. Smilla Jaspersen, die im selben Haus wohnt wie der Junge, sieht das anders und stellt ihre eigenen Nachforschungen an.Der internationale Erfolg dieses literarischen Thrillers hat neben der faszinierenden Geschichte vor allem mit seiner Heldin zu tun: der wunderbar ruppigen, unangepassten und zugleich zarten und verletzlichen Smilla.

Peter Høegs Weltbestseller - von Bille August mit Julia Ormond in der Hauptrolle verfilmt - führt mitten in Eis und Finsternis. Wenige Tage vor Weihnachten wird im Kopenhagener Hafenviertel ein sechsjähriger Junge gefunden: tot. Er ist offenbar vom Dach eines Lagerhauses gestürzt, und da man nur seine Spuren und die keines anderen auf dem Dach sieht, scheint der Fall klar: ein Unfall. Smilla Jaspersen, die im selben Haus wohnt wie der Junge, geht der Sache nach, und ihre aufregende Odyssee führt sie bis ins grönländische Eismeer...