Set in Denmark in the here and now, "The Quiet Girl" centres 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. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical abilities. When one of the children goes missing a year later, Krone sets ...
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Set in Denmark in the here and now, "The Quiet Girl" centres 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. Wanted for tax evasion and on the verge of extradition, Krone is drafted into the service of a mysterious order of nuns who promise him reprieve from the international authorities in return for his help safeguarding a group of children with mystical abilities. When one of the children goes missing a year later, Krone sets off to find the young girl and bring her back, making a shocking series of discoveries along the way about her identity and the true intentions of his young wards. "The Quiet Girl" pits art and spirituality against corporate interests and nothing less than the will to war by the industrialized world. This long-awaited novel from the author of "Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow" is a fast-paced philosophical thriller of rare quality.
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Add this copy of The Quiet Girl to cart. $15.00, good condition, Sold by Goldstone Books rated 4.0 out of 5 stars, ships from Ammanford, CARMS, UNITED KINGDOM, published 2007 by Harvill Secker.
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Very good in Very good jacket. VGC plus. Harvill Secker, 2007. First UK edition-first printing(2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1). Black hardback(silver lettering to the spine) with Dj(two small creases, nicks and scratch on the edges of the Dj cover), both in VGC plus. Illustrated with b/w maps. Translated from the Danish by Nadia Christensen. Nice and clean pages with two small nicks and crease on the edges, previous owner's name written on the edge of the title page.410pp. Price un-clipped.
"Smila's Sense of Snow" was the first book I read by this author. Though I preferred it to the Quiet Girl, this is amazing as well. Extremely well written and above all, a very original premise.
