The history of Danish dreams
By: Peter Høeg ; translated by Barbara Haveland.
Contributors: Haveland, Barbara.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 1995
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 356
Subjects: Denmark -- History -- Fiction
Description: Hoeg gives us a very different account of the twentieth century, which in Denmark encompasses the transition from a medieval society to a modern welfare state with its accompanying cultural revolutions.

The cast includes a count who builds a wall around his estate and stops all his clocks to prevent the passage of time; an old lady who presides over a powerful newspaper dynasty and predicts the future accurately in print without ever learning to read and write; and Adonis Jensen, who causes his vagabond parents great sorrow through his inability to steal.