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The history of Danish dreams
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The history of Danish dreams

Author: Peter Høeg; Barbara Haveland
Publisher: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995.
Edition/Format:   Book : Fiction : English : 1st edView all editions and formats
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A satire on Denmark. The characters include a count who decides to stop time by outlawing clocks on his estate, an old lady who presides over a newspaper dynasty and devotes herself to predicting the future, and a son who causes his parents sorrow by refusing to be a thief like them. By the author of Borderliners.
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Genre/Form: Historical fiction
Fiction
Material Type: Fiction
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Peter Høeg; Barbara Haveland
ISBN: 0374171386 9780374171384
OCLC Number: 32544765
Description: 356 p. ; 25 cm.
Other Titles: Forestilling om det tyvende århundrede.
Responsibility: Peter Høeg ; translated by Barbara Haveland.

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A satire on Denmark. The characters include a count who decides to stop time by outlawing clocks on his estate, an old lady who presides over a newspaper dynasty and devotes herself to predicting the future, and a son who causes his parents sorrow by refusing to be a thief like them. By the author of Borderliners.

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