The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic, the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Hoeg's novels takes us from Society London, across its roof-tops to a forest idyll, to make for a fable at once hilarious and thought-provoking.
The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Heg's novels takes us from Society London, across its roof-tops to a forest idyll, to make for a fable at once hilarious and thought-provoking.
Vorwort
From the author of international success Smilla's Sense of Snow, comes a brilliant, hilarious and thought-provoking love story, which unites fantasy, fable, and myth with reality, and a woman with an ape.
Autorentext
Klappentext
The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Heg's novels takes us from Society London, across its roof-tops to a forest idyll, to make for a fable at once hilarious and thought-provoking.
Vorwort
From the author of international success Smilla's Sense of Snow, comes a brilliant, hilarious and thought-provoking love story, which unites fantasy, fable, and myth with reality, and a woman with an ape.
Autorentext
Peter Hoeg
Klappentext
B format edition published to coincide with the hardback of Hoeg's latest title, "Tales Of The Night. The Woman And The Ape" is a fable of sorts, featuring a woman called Madelene and an ape called Erasmus. Madelene's husband wishes to use Erasmus to fulfil his ambition of becoming director of London Zoo. But the two have different ideas, and elope to a forest where they gradually discover what the other is about... Harvill Panther.
Titel
The Woman And The Ape
Autor
EAN
9781448130566
ISBN
978-1-4481-3056-6
Format
E-Book (epub)
Hersteller
Herausgeber
Genre
Veröffentlichung
29.02.2012
Digitaler Kopierschutz
Adobe-DRM
Dateigrösse
0.57 MB
Anzahl Seiten
240
Jahr
2012
Untertitel
Englisch
Features
Unterstützte Lesegerätegruppen: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet
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