The History of Danish Dreams
Books / Hardcover
ISBN: 0374171386 / Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux, October 1995
Follows an eccentric family as they try to cope with the transition of Denmark from medieval society to modern welfare state
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Hoeg gives us a very different account of the twentieth century, which in Denmark encompasses the transition from a medieval society to a modern welfare state with its accompanying cultural revolutions. The cast includes a count who builds a wall around his estate and stops all his clocks to prevent the passage of time; an old lady who presides over a powerful newspaper dynasty and predicts the future accurately in print without ever learning to read and write; and Adonis Jensen, who causes his vagabond parents great sorrow through his inability to steal.
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