Tales Of The Night
Author: Peter Høeg
This is the first collection of short stories Peter Hoeg published in Denmark. Each tale set on or around the 19th March 1929, the stories depict a great variety of characters and social settings, each possessive of Hoeg’s uniquely lyrical powers of observation…..Read More
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