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Original Title:	Den stille pige
ISBN:	0374263698 (ISBN13: 9780374263690)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Kasper Krone
Setting:	Denmark

The Quiet Girl

Peter Høeg

Hardcover | Pages: 408 pages

Rating: 3.23 | 2527 Users | 466 Reviews

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Title	:	The Quiet Girl
Author	:	Peter Høeg
Book Format	:	Hardcover
Book Edition	:	Deluxe Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 408 pages
Published	:	December 3rd 2007 by Farrar Straus Giroux (first published 2006)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery. Cultural. Denmark. European Literature. Scandinavian Literature. Magical Realism. Contemporary

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Kaspar Krone is a world-renowned circus clown, and a man in some deep trouble. Drowning in gambling debt and wanted for tax evasion, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical abilities that Krone also shares. When one of the children goes missing, Krone sets off to find the young girl and bring her back, making a shocking series of discoveries along the way.

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You know how confusing it is to listen to someone else's dream? "So there was this clown, but he wasn't funny exactly, more like he could do sleight of hand and stuff, and it was in Denmark and there were earthquakes and they were worried about flooding, and he was trying to rescue these kids that had some kind of supernatural powers I think? Oh, and the clown could hear everything, like people's heartbeats and personalities and what time of day it was, so he was trying to use his powers to find

Peter Hoeg has some great ideas, the kind of ideas that could make for really brilliant books. Unfortunately, in this case at least, his execution doesn't do justice to those ideas. The main character, Kasper Krone, is a famous circus clown, although we don't actually get to see him in the ring. He is also gifted with an incredible sense of hearing that allows him to hear sounds in things that most of us didn't even realize had sounds, and also allows him to hear details that most would miss. It

Littered with brilliant scenes, this novel simply does not hang together. A pity, but the author deliberately crafted it like this, so cannot be to surprised at the reaction. With a slightly different approach by the author, this book could have been outstanding.

The kind of book I loathe: one that sets out to assert the intellectual superiority of the author and make the reader feel stupid. I only finished it out of the sheer dogged determination that's part of my character and honed by three years as an English undergraduate.The novel is about a clown, Kaspar, who is able to hear people and objects as music and is able to reach sounds that other people can't, and is in trouble for debt and tax evasion. There is a young girl who, along with a number of

I enjoyed Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow and was looking forward to reading The Quiet Girl, but I soon found I was frustrated by the magic realism which swamped the story. I love that genre in the books of Isabelle Allende and Garcia Marquez., but in this book I found it confusing.

A lot of people seem to have really enjoyed this book, but I just didn't get it. Being a musician I appreciated all the musical references and glad I had an understanding of what he was talking about in that respect or the book would have had no meaning for me. Simply put I just didn't get the point of the book. There were a few lines or quotes that I thought were interesting on true to life but the overall story was just odd to me. The characters didn't feel like real people, or seem to do the

My first Peter Hoeg novel. Really fast paced, action packed psychological thriller - a genre that I am surprised is still in its nascence! Although the writing is very complex with unspecified time jumps, magical realism, no clear distinction between dream, hallucinations and reality (a who-cares-for-what's-real outlook) made a book a collection of too many first time reading experiences for me. I would love to read the book again. I believe the book requires to be read at least twice to be