num_pages: 252
description: Strange 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. The school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. Soon, they suspect 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.
language: English
title: Borderliners
titlecomplete: Borderliners
characters: Biehl, Peter Duchene
genres: Danish, Mystery, Philosophy, Denmark, Novels, Thriller, Literature, Contemporary, Fiction, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 3802
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: De Gyldne Laurbær, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Kritikerprisen (Danish Critics Prize for Literature)
publisher: The Harvill Press