The Woman And The Ape
  • Published: 1 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860463686
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $28.99

The Woman And The Ape

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From the author of international success Smilla’s Sense of Snow, comes a brilliant, hilarious and thought-provoking love story, which unites fantasy, fable, and myth with reality, and a woman with an 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.
  • Published: 1 August 2002
  • ISBN: 9781860463686
  • Imprint: Vintage
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 240
  • RRP: $28.99
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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.

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Also by Peter Høeg

Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow
The Susan Effect
The Elephant Keepers' Children
The Quiet Girl
The History Of Danish Dreams
Borderliners
Tales Of The Night
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Praise for The Woman And The Ape

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

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

Guardian