num_pages: 288
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: Peter Duchene, Biehl
genres: Literature, Novels, Thriller, Philosophy, Danish, Fiction, Denmark, Contemporary, Scandinavian Literature, Mystery
ratings_count: 3803
awards: awardedAt: 725875200000
name: De Gyldne Laurbær, awardedAt: 725875200000
name: Kritikerprisen (Danish Critics Prize for Literature)
publisher: Delta