The History of Danish Dreams

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Hoeg gives us a very different account of the twentieth century, which in Denmark encompasses the transition from a medieval society to a modern welfare state with its accompanying cultural revolutions. The cast includes a count who builds a wall around his estate and stops all his clocks to prevent the passage of time; an old lady who presides over a powerful newspaper dynasty and predicts the future accurately in print without ever learning to read and write; and Adonis Jensen, who causes his vagabond parents great sorrow through his inability to steal.

Is The History of Danish Dreams appropriate for my child?

Suitable for most readers 16 and up.

This literary fantasy explores 20th-century Danish history through magical realism and eccentric characters. Content is primarily conceptual and whimsical rather than graphic, though the adult themes and narrative complexity require mature readers.

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