Peter Høeg Livres

Difficile pour Smilla Jaspersen de croire en la mort accidentelle d'Esajas. Impossible même parce que Smilla ne croit pas qu'un enfant atteint de vertiges chroniques puisse sauter du toit d'un immeuble. Parce qu'elle s'était prise d'affection pour ce gamin groenlandais, délaissé par sa mère. Parce que Smilla est groenlandaise, elle aussi, et que sa mère, esquimaude, lui avait appris "l'amour de la neige". Et que la neige ne ment pas, contrairement aux hommes. Commence alors pour cette femme solitaire et obstinée une quête pour la vérité et l'honneur qui l'amènera sur les traces d'un bateau en route pour les terres arctiques, à la découverte d'une infâme machination qui risque de lui coûter la vie...

À quatorze ans, Peter est placé à l'école Biehl, une institution pour enfants en difficulté. Il se lie d'amitié avec Kararina et Auguste, et ensemble, ils tentent de percer les mystères de cette école réputée pour sa pédagogie.

Un bateau débouche en trombe et s'arrête avec fracas dans le Royal Yacht Club de Londres. Seul passager à bord : Erasmus, un singe anthropoïde d'une espèce inconnue, qui, bientôt capturé, est livré au directeur de l'Institut de recherche sur le comportement et éminent zoologiste Adam Burden. Celui-ci compte effectuer des expériences sur l'animal doté d'une intelligence supérieure et, à la faveur de sa " découverte " sensationnelle, décrocher le poste convoité de directeur du nouveau Grand Zoo de la capitale. Mais il y a un os : si Adam a des plans, Madeleine, sa ravissante épouse danoise, a les siens - tout comme le singe Erasmus, semble-t-il. Commence alors une fuite haletante par les toits et les arbres de la jungle londonienne qui s'achève par une histoire d'amour... inattendue. Car il est difficile de dire où, en chacun de nous, s'achève la part que nous appelons humaine et où commence la part que nous appelons animale. Par ce roman vif et insolent où l'humour alterne avec la réflexion, Peter Hoeg confirme qu'il est un écrivain inspiré et audacieux dont le parcours est, pour le plus grand bonheur de ses lecteurs, imprévisible.

The story unfolds through the eyes of fourteen-year-old Peter, exploring the lives of three siblings navigating their unconventional upbringing with deeply religious parents on the fictional island of Finø. While the community boasts harmonious coexistence among various faiths, the family's seemingly idyllic life hides deeper complexities. The narrative delves into themes of faith, family dynamics, and the magic found in everyday experiences, revealing that all may not be as it appears in their vibrant yet peculiar world.

These stories, which vary in theme but all bear the mark of Peter Hoeg's graceful and thoughtful prose, are set in eight separate corners of the world. On this fateful night, a young mathematician encounters Joseph Conrad during a train ride through the war-torn Congo in "Journey into a Dark Heart; " a pair of star-crossed lovers in Lisbon dance through their memories of the Danish ballet in "Hommage to Bournonville; " a seaside community struggles with the threat of a smallpox epidemic in "Pity for the Children of Vaden Town; " and in "The Verdict of Ignatio Lanstad Rasker", an idealistic young writer is prosecuted for his homosexuality by the conservative Lord Chief Justice of Denmark. Illuminating, acrobatic, and enriched with historical fact and foreshadowing, the stories in Tales of the Night should "consolidate Hoeg's reputation as one of the world's most versatile authors" (Seattle Times).

They're refugees from orphanages and reform schools, children in danger of being institutionalized for not fitting in: Borderliners . Now they've been given one last chance: transfer to an exclusive private academy where they will be integrated with normal, privileged students. What they don't know--yet--is that they are subjects of a secret experiment in social Darwinism. All they have is time, every moment of which is rigidly managed by their Dickensian academy. For Peter and his newfound friends, August and Katarina, the only escape from the draconian present is in recreating time and space for themselves in an insidious rebellion that is both revolutionary--and suicidal...

From the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow comes this highly imaginative novel, In a Danish feudal castle, 1520, a count believes he has pinpointed the center of the universe—a patch of land on his estate. But when his discovery is met with disbelief, he walls off his mansion and has all of the clocks stopped. Four centuries pass instantaneously, and the count's young secretary, Carl, emerges from isolation to find a world bursting with war, innovation, love, sexuality, danger, and all the values of the sixteenth century turned upside down as though by supernatural forces—namely, the force of history. From one of our most gifted international writers comes a dazzling epic fairy tale, a tough fable about the gifts and iniquities of progress.

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.

You'll tell her your darkest secrets Susan Svendsen has an unusual talent. She is an expert in finding out secrets. People feel compelled to confide in her and unwittingly confess their innermost thoughts. Her whole life, she has exploited this talent, but now her family is in jeopardy and there is a prison sentence hanging over her head. Then Susan gets a timely offer from a former government official: use her power one more time and have all charges dropped. But there are some powerful people determined to stop her.

Žijeme v době, která je plná podnětů, takže člověk neví, co má dělat dřív. Žijeme rovněž obklopeni násilím a nepochopením. Podle autorů této knihy je úkolem všech, kdo se podílejí na výchově dětí, pěstovat jejich schopnost spočinout v sobě, vnímat vlastní pocity, navázat se sebou kontakt. Tak se děti naučí vcítit se nejen do sebe, ale i do druhého – prohloubí schopnost empatie, s níž se všechny děti rodí, ale ne každé dítě tuto dovednost rozvine. K tomu autoři předkládají svůj model pěti přirozených kompetencí, jež souvisejí s tělem, dechem, srdcem, tvořivostí a uvědomováním. V knize je vysvětleno, co je empatie, čím může přispět dnešnímu světu a jak ji konkrétně pěstovat. Část knihy se proto věnuje návrhům na cvičení empatie pro rodiče, terapeuty či pedagogy.