num_pages: 424
description: 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.
language: English
title: The Quiet Girl
titlecomplete: The Quiet Girl
characters: Kasper Krone
genres: Mystery, Fiction, Magical Realism, Scandinavian Literature, Contemporary, Crime, Danish, Denmark, Fantasy, Novels
ratings_count: 2918
places: Denmark
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux