by Peter Høeg · The Harvill Press · tapa dura · ISBN 9781860464201
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«Tales of the Night» is Peter Høeg's collection of short stories, published by The Harvill Press in hardback (288 pages, in English).
The stories in this volume share the night of 19 March 1929 as their setting and take place in places as varied as the Congo, Lisbon or Denmark. Love, justice and the tensions of the era run through narratives of a historical and literary tone, including that of a young mathematician who meets Joseph Conrad on a train.
English translation by Barbara Haveland; the English edition was published in October 1997.
For readers of short fiction and literary fiction with an interest in Scandinavia and the interwar cultural climate.
Peter Høeg is a Danish writer of fiction. He is best known for his novel Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow (1992).
