The History of Danish Dreams: A Novel

From the author of Smillas Sense of Snow comes this highly imaginative novel wonderful in scope . . . crammed with Danish history social realism satire magic realism high romance and sexual goings-on (Newsday).. In a Danish feudal castle 1520 a count believes he has pinpointed the center of the universe--a patch of land on his estate. But when his discovery is met with disbelief he walls off his mansion and has all of the clocks stopped. Four centuries pass instantaneously and the counts young secretary Carl emerges from isolation to find a world bursting with war innovation love sexuality danger and all the values of the sixteenth century turned upside down as though by supernatural forces--namely the force of history. From one of our most gifted international writers comes a dazzling epic fairy tale a tough fable about the gifts and iniquities of progress.