num_pages: 416
description: 
  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.
language: English
title: The History of Danish Dreams
titlecomplete: The History of Danish Dreams
genres: Fiction, Magical Realism, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Fantasy, Danish, Denmark, Scandinavian Literature
ratings_count: 1315
awards: awardedAt: 568022400000
name: Weekendavisens litteraturpris
publisher: Delta