Borderliners

Gripping and disturbing . . . Høeg''s evocation of the way a child perceives the world is alarmingly vivid.-USA TodayStrange things are happening at Biehl''s Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects kids at the end of the system''s tether. But the school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. The children soon suspect that they are guinea pigs in a bizarre social experiment and that their only hope of escape is to break through a dangerous threshold of time and space. Peter Høeg''s brilliant and dystopian Borderliners is a uniquely philosophical thriller (Boston Sunday Globe) and a haunting story of childhood travail and hope.