About this title: Set in Denmark in the here and now, Hoegs masterful, inventive novel centers around Kaspar Krone, a world-renowned circus clown with a deep love for the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, and an even deeper gambling debt.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Date Published: 10/30/2007
ISBN-13:9780374263690ISBN:0374263698
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374263690ISBN:0374263698
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN-13:9780374263690ISBN:0374263698
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Picador
Date Published: 2008-09-30
ISBN-13:9780312427771ISBN:0312427778
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"Das stille Mädchen erzählt die Geschichte von Kasper Krone, einem Clown, der seit einem Unfall in seiner Kindheit ein ganz besonderes Gehör besitzt. Und dieses Gehört ist es auch, was das Buch zu etwas Besonderem macht. Durch das ganze Buch beschreibt Kasper die Geräusche in seiner Umgebung und kreiert damit eine ganz besondere Atmosphäre. Der Klangteppich Kopenhagens verzaubert den Leser, bestimmt die Stimmung der Szene. Leider konnte ich mich trotzdem nicht ganz in das Buch einfinden. Peter Hoeg ist ein Meister des Unausgesprochenen. Vieles wird an späteren Stellen aufgedeckt, vieles bleibt aber auch unklar. So habe ich selbst nach der letzten Seite noch nicht völlig verstanden, worum es eigentlich ging. Es mag an mir liegen, aber einige Zusammenhänge werden nicht klar genug dar gestellt, und so bekommt dieses Buch von mir nur vier und nicht fünf Sterne."
"Kaspar Krone is a world-renowned circus clown with supernatural hearing abilities who is in deep trouble for tax evasion. After meeting a young girl, he discovers that she and other children with special abilities have been kidnapped and sets out to rescue them, with the assistance of nuns, his dying father and other interesting characters. The whole book is half sci-fi, somewhat confusing, and requires good concentration to make the leaps between reality and the events taking place in the story."
"The first hundred or so pages were very confusing.
Kaspar is a surprising hero. He's a musical clown wanted for tax evasion and scheduled for extradition. But he has a gift. His heightened hearing allows him not only to hear sounds undetectable to normal ears, but to find the meaning in those sounds. He's asked by a group of nuns to find and rescue a pair of very special children. All this is done in a Copenhagen that has been sunk under the ocean by a disastrous earthquake.
If you read along to the musical piece that Kaspar is currently describing, it enhances the whole experience. If you can get through the muddle, some parts are just magical."
"Futuristic sci fi magical realism psychological thriller/mystery. A deep dive into the mind of a character you probably would never want to meet - even in daylight - because he could read you like you were medieval sheet music. Peter Hoeg's concept of people identifiable by the tunes their souls play - this one's "sound was now like the aria from the Goldberg Variations, that one's "being was E-major. The higher aspect of E-major," while Nature one night plays"the Ricercare from Ein Musikalisches Opfer, orchestrated by Anton Webern with text by Tagore..." -echoes the Vedic idea of life originating, and perpetuating itself, as sound. Om.
The novel seems to be about...oh did I mention the children who are apparently in mortal danger and have to be rescued by our hero but actually...and the fact that our hero is a famous clown on the run from the Danish and Spanish governments but some how manages to be rescued, manipulated and supported by nuns from the Russian Orthodox Church all the while running in and out of vehicles and buildings and underground structures chasing after bad guys with his body shot full of holes and losing lots of blood... Get the picture?"
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