The Woman & the Ape - Softcover

Peter H�eg

3.35

2,701 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1860462553 ISBN 13: 9781860462559

Publisher: Vintage, 1997

View all copies of this ISBN edition:

large edition paperback, fine In stock shipped from our UK warehouse

"synopsis" may belong to another edition of this title.

Review:

Peter H�eg, author of the international bestseller Smilla's Sense of Snow, has written a fable that explores our human status as inhabitants of paradise lost, and the trade-off between civilization and freedom. The story begins with a captured ape, dubbed Erasmus, a specimen of an apparently new species with a cognitive ability that seems to rival human capacities. Erasmus is rescued from scientific study and experimentation by Madelene, whose husband, Adam, is the zoo director. Escaping to an Eden-like nature reserve, Madelene finds an empathy with Erasmus that develops into a wild sexual liberation. When the pair emerge from Eden to try to stop Adam continuing researches on others of Erasmus' kind, paradise dissolves, and civilization wins out. Read an interview with Peter H�eg.

About the Author:

The Woman and the Ape is Danish author Peter H�eg's fourth novel. His works prior to this include Borderliners, The History of Danish Dreams, and the critically acclaimed, internationally successful thriller Smilla's Sense of Snow. Keeping close to his roots, he currently resides in Copenhagen with his wife and two daughters.

"About this title" may belong to another edition of this title.