- Taschenbuch: 288 Seiten
- Verlag: Delta (1. Oktober 1995)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0385315082
- ISBN-13: 978-0385315081
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 19,8 x 13 x 2 cm
- Durchschnittliche Kundenbewertung: 4.3 von 5 Sternen Alle Rezensionen anzeigen (19 Kundenrezensionen)
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After the astounding critical and popular success of his first book (Smilla's Sense of Snow, 1993), it wouldn't be entirely unexpected if Hoeg produced a less-successful sequel. But his second novel--a complete departure from Smilla--is even more brilliantly stunning than his first. Borderliners focuses on a 14-year-old orphan named, oddly, Peter Hoeg. Hoeg has been incarcerated in custodial institutions all of his young life, and he matter-of-factly recounts the cruelties of daily life that he has come to accept as normal. His latest "home" is Biehl's School, where most students are academically gifted and from good backgrounds. Peter can't understand why he has been allowed to join these exalted ranks, but he soon finds that other of society's "borderliners" have also been brought to the school. Among these misfits, he is attracted to the older, wiser Katarina and to August, a tiny murderer who killed his parents after years of suffering unimaginable abuse. The three begin to believe there is a grand scheme behind their placement at the school, that the staff may be conducting a strange and misguided experiment that could end in disaster. Hoeg's story reveals a harsh and grotesque world in which most of us could never survive. But it also suggests that there is hope--in the form of peace, if not happiness--for those like Peter who have been the victims of life. Disturbing, brilliant, and searing. Emily Melton
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From Library Journal
In this extraordinary novel, Hoeg portrays the closed world of Biehl's, a Danish private school where a bizarre social experiment is underway. The narrator, Peter, is now a student at Biehl's after spending all of his life in children's homes and reform schools. He is a borderline case, along with Katarina, whose parents both died in the past year, and August, severely disturbed after killing his abusive parents. Although allowed no social interaction, the children conspire to conduct their own experiment to discover what plan is being carried out at Biehl's. Hoeg touches on some of the same themes as in his acclaimed Smilla's Sense of Snow (LJ 8/93)-neglected children, scientific experiments, and technology-but this is not a thriller and may not appeal to the same audience. It is instead a fascinating intellectual puzzle that explores the themes of social control, child assessment, family, and the concept of time. Highly recommended.
--Patrica Ross, Westerville, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
--Patrica Ross, Westerville, Ohio
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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This fresh and compelling new novel by Peter Hoeg the author of the dark yet captivating "Smilla's Sense of Snow" is like a journey into Einstein's brain - a cruise into the inner reaches of time. In fact, so much of the book is about time, that if I'm ever bed ridden or find myself with nothing better to do,I'm going to go through this book and highlight the word TIME each time it shows up, and I'm quite certain it will be there at least one thousand times. So I've established that there is some tedium and redundancy in this novel. However, time is the critical element in the 'experiment' that pushes the borderline students (two orphans and one psychotic boy who recently murdered his parents after years of abuse) over the edge while they are supposed to be assimilating themselves into an elite private school. As resourceful and unwilling to submit to government/institutional dictates as 'Smilla' was, this story (which seems to be autobiographical down to the protagonist first name - Peter) kept me on pins and needles until the very end and left me clambering for more. Dark, disturbing yet hopeful too, this book will leave you looking at everything differently . . . in TIME.
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Dieser Roman stellt eine sehr spannende Form philosophisch angehauchter Gedanken dar, welche sich in einem Schulexperiment beinahe zu materialisieren scheinen. Mit den (Über-)Sinnen dreier Kinder wahrgenommen, die am Rande der Gesellschaft Dänemarks stehen, führt Hoeg den Leser in seine subtile Welt zarter verwirrender Gefühle, kindlicher Abenteuer und vor allem der Fragen und Lösungskonstrukte zum abstractum Zeit. Dies geschieht in einer Verschachtelung der Zeiten seiner Geschichte, welche den Leser nicht immer gleich wissen läßt, wo - oder besser wann -er sich gerade in der Erzählung befindet. Ein wirklich lohnenswertes Buch für alle, die sich noch einen Rest gedanklicher Experimentierfreude bewahrt haben!
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This was my first completed Hoeg novel (save me from ...Danish Dreams, please!), and it without pause shot up my favorite books list. The greatest books are those that you see a piece of yourself in, especially a piece that you have until then never noticed. All those who feel like a borderliner will see themselves within this book.
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Ein spannendes, brillanntes und ergreifendes Buch
De maske egnede, die vielleicht geeigneten, heißt das dänische Original. Es beschreibt in eindringlicher Sprache den Versuch, randständige Kinder in ein... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 9. Januar 2002 veröffentlicht
Highly recommended!
This book is like no other. It's a beautiful book in it's sensitivity and strength. This is the first I've read of Hoeg's but will read more. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 1. Juli 2000 veröffentlicht
An excellent follow-up to Smilla!
The writing of the great Danish novelist Peter Høeg is beyond genre classification, although this novel and Smilla's Sense Of Snow could best be described as a cross between an... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 22. April 2000 von Eric Petersen
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i mark the passages of books that i find beautiful- most books it's about 5/6 pages- pretty randomly scattered- this book, i marked whole chapters- what wonderful poetry! Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 27. Dezember 1999 von "febri5"
A bit disappointing
Maybe the thrill of Smilla is still left in my brain, so I read borderliner with great expectation. You could say expectation is half met. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 5. Dezember 1999 von Anthony
PLEASANTLY DISTURBING
Though I do not enjoy suspense-filled literature, I found Borderliners to be extremely interesting, and I literally couldn't put it down. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 15. April 1999 veröffentlicht
An excellent read with a brutal storyline.
Borderliners by Peter Hoeg reads easy and deserves a meassure of reflection. The story is disturbing with it's brutality but it is in no way a study of blood and gore but a... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 22. März 1999 veröffentlicht
Psycosociological approach to childhood
I've been reading this book with an unusual interest cause normally books concerning sociological and psycological issues like the integration of children with problems in our... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 20. Januar 1999 veröffentlicht
AN OVERRATED BOOK OF AN OVERRATED WRITER
There is very little substanse behind the fine word and form in "Borderline". The first two thirds of the book are an interesting story with a plot which owes the major... Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 4. Januar 1999 von Martin_Ingemann@mail1.Stofanet.dk
a must-read
I thoroughly enjoyed Smilla but Borderliners is even better. An incredible book.
Am 22. September 1998 veröffentlicht
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