Book Details
The Woman and the Ape
Peter Høeg
Summary
Lonely and disillusioned, Madelene Burden is a modern-day sleeping beauty drowsing in a alcoholic stupor.
Lonely and disillusioned, Madelene Burden is a modern-day sleeping beauty drowsing in a alcoholic stupor. And the prince whose kiss brings her to life is 300-pound ape named Erasmus, the victim of a smuggling gone awry. Enthralling readers with the same taut prose, enigmatic characters, thrilling suspense, and satirical humor that drove "Smilla" to the top of bestseller lists, Hoeg offers a daring and imaginative fable that poses searching questions about the nature of romance.
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Highlights
- Easy to enjoy: 224 pages · Hardcover
- By Peter Høeg
Details
- ISBN: 9781860462542
- Author: Peter Høeg
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 224
- Language: Danish
- Publication date: 2 January 1997
- Condition: Used – Good
- Rating: 3.50
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Average rating: 3.50/5 · 0 reviews
Madelene is married to Burden, an ambitious zoologist. The ape is Erasmus, who is about to be used by Burden. But Erasmus is nobody's fool, and so he elopes with Madelene.
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