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The Woman And The Ape

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781860463686

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 171g

  • RRP: £12.99

The Woman And The Ape

The woman is Madelene, rich, beautiful and alcoholic; the ape, intelligent and illegally imported to London by Madelene's husband Burden. Burden has plans, so does Madelene, and so, as it happens, does the ape. This most controversial of Høeg's novels takes us from Society London, across its roof-tops to a forest idyll, to make for a fable at once hilarious and thought-provoking.

  • Imprint: Vintage

  • ISBN: 9781860463686

  • Length: 240  Pages

  • Dimensions: 198mm x 15mm x 129mm

  • Weight: 171g

  • RRP: £12.99

Reviews

  • The Woman and the Ape has many arrestingly stylish and inventive passages and an overall brilliance of tone that shows once again the originality of Mr. Hoeg's voice

    New York Times

  • No imaginative writer working today is any more daring than Danish novelist Peter Hoeg... An utterly original mix of fantasy, fable, myth, and love story

    Backlist

  • Høeg is a writer determined to make new footprints in the snow

    Guardian

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About the Author

Peter Høeg

Peter Høeg was born in 1957 and followed various callings - dancer, actor, fencer, sailor, mountaineer - before he turned seriously to writing. He published his first novel, The History of Danish Dreams, in 1988, and was called 'the foremost writer of his generation' by Information magazine. His crime novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow received universal acclaim and was an international bestseller.

Peter Høeg

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