Borderliners - Hardcover

Hoeg, Peter

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0002730138 ISBN 13: 9780002730136

Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1994

Synopsis

National Bestseller
 

Strange 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.

About this title

From the Publisher:

A disturbing, often brutal book, which stretches the limits of literary thriller as it challenges our notions of education and childhood.

About the Author:

Peter Høeg, born in 1957 in Denmark, followed various callings--dancer, actor, sailor, fencer, and mountaineer--before turning seriously to writing. He is the bestselling author of five novels and one short story collection. His work has been published in thirty-three countries.

About this edition

• Publisher: Farrar, Straus, Giroux
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0002730138
• ISBN 13: 9780002730136
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 256