TY - BOOK AU - Peter Høeg AU - Barbara Haveland TI - The history of Danish dreams SN - 9780770427344 U1 - 839.81374 HOE PY - 1996/// CY - Toronto PB - :Seal Books KW - Fiction N1 - pt. 1. Carl Laurids. Amalie Teander. Anna Bak. Adonis Jensen pt. 2. Adonis and Anna. Carl Laurids and Amalie pt. 3. Maria and Carsten and their children N2 - A satire on Denmark. The characters include a count who decides to stop time by outlawing clocks on his estate, an old lady who presides over a newspaper dynasty and devotes herself to predicting the future, and a son who causes his parents sorrow by refusing to be a thief like them. By the author of Borderliners ER -