Representation of the 20th Century

"This book is a History of Danish hopes, a story about what we feared, what we dreamed of, what we hoped for and what we expected in the 20th century, and I tried to tell all this as accurately and... simply as possible…" This is the debut novel of Peter Høeg, who later became famous for "Smilla's Sense of Snow," "The Quiet," and "The Condition of Grace," his brilliant entrance into the top league of Scandinavian literature. Before the eyes of the reader, the century that is drifting further away from us will again unfold - with all its cynicism and sentimentality, progress and prejudices, with attempts by five generations of the residents of a particular country to slow down or speed up the flow of Time. So, our with you "Representation of the 20th Century" begins… in 1520, in the Danish estate Dark Hill, where, according to Paracelsus, lies the center of the Universe.