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The Woman and the Ape (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)

Peter Høeg’s first novel, Smilla’s Sense of Snow (1993), was a critical and popular success. Although American reaction to his next novel, Borderliners (1994), was more equivocal, both novels are singular achievements by a major new international talent, works that transcend traditional genre classification. The first is at once a compelling thriller and an acute study of human motivation; the latter is a Bildungsroman—a coming-of-age novel—as well as an expansive critique of contemporary society. In The Woman and the Ape, this young Danish writer...

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