Visit Of The Royal Physician
«One of the most dramatic and memorable historical novels to have hit these shores in years...Fierce, direct, imbued with wintry, windswept poetry, Enquist's style makes 18th-century court intrigue as rough and raucous as a mafia feud»
Independent
Adultery, insanity, enlightenment and the bluest blood - this compelling and prize-winning historical novel exposes the seamy underside of eighteenth-century Denmark. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Vintage
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 320
- ISBN
- 9780099447054
- Utgivelsesår
- 2003
- Format
- 20 x 13 cm
- Priser
- Short-listed for IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003 and International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2003.
Anmeldelser
«One of the most dramatic and memorable historical novels to have hit these shores in years...Fierce, direct, imbued with wintry, windswept poetry, Enquist's style makes 18th-century court intrigue as rough and raucous as a mafia feud»
Independent
«One of those rare, magical books that creates its own world so modestly that it is only halfway through that you realise you have been entranced»
Daily Telegraph
«An impressive historical novel...brilliantly mixing motifs of madness, role-playing and control»
The Times
«An elegant and gorgeous novel»
Los Angeles Times
«was hard to put down. Love, idealism, corruption and insanity in the Danish court of the Enlightenment: the world he draws is so complete, it s a very absorbing read.»
Rachel Seiffert, Daily Telegraph