Tales of the Night

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'An intriguing collection of stories . . . Hoeg's genuine narrative gifts fill these tales with surprise and excitement."
—Katherine Dunn, The Washington Post
Hln his first collection of short fiction, Peter Hoeg proves himself to be a storyteller in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Joseph Conrad. These beautifully constructed tales deal with love, the classic arts and sciences, and the confrontation of Western and non-Western cultures. Moving frohn a railroad car in the Congo to a sailboat in Lisbon's har-bor to an upper-class apartment in Copenhagen, they include the tales of a young, disillusioned mathematician who comes face-to-face with his culture's distortion of Africa'; an esteemed judge who runs off with the young man he has just sentenced to prison for his homosexual tendencies; and a town—sealed off from the plague—that is infiltrated by a troupe of traveling actors. Illuminating, acro-batic, and enriched with historical fact and foreshadowing, the stories in Toles... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'An intriguing collection of stories . . . Hoeg's genuine narrative gifts fill these tales with surprise and excitement."
—Katherine Dunn, The Washington Post
Hln his first collection of short fiction, Peter Hoeg proves himself to be a storyteller in the tradition of Isak Dinesen and Joseph Conrad. These beautifully constructed tales deal with love, the classic arts and sciences, and the confrontation of Western and non-Western cultures. Moving frohn a railroad car in the Congo to a sailboat in Lisbon's har-bor to an upper-class apartment in Copenhagen, they include the tales of a young, disillusioned mathematician who comes face-to-face with his culture's distortion of Africa'; an esteemed judge who runs off with the young man he has just sentenced to prison for his homosexual tendencies; and a town—sealed off from the plague—that is infiltrated by a troupe of traveling actors. Illuminating, acro-batic, and enriched with historical fact and foreshadowing, the stories in Toles of the Night should "consolidate Hoeg's reputation as one of the world's most versatile authors" (The Seattle Times).
jse] are splendid stories and not to be missed by anyone who enjoys elegant writ-and intellectual vigor/' —The Atlantic Monthly
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Cover design by Jesse Marinoff Reyes
Cover photograph by BrassaT, La Retapé, Boulevard Montparnasse,
Paris, c. 1931-32 © Gilberte BrassaT Vissza