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...watchword. When 5,200 children (ages 7 to 18) "cross the border" into their respective villages for one to four weeks, they will be issued passports and exchange U.S. dollars for the appropriate foreign currency. Newcomers will be advised that speaking English is verboten. Speaking German, French, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Swedish, Finnish, Russian, Chinese or Japanese is de rigueur...
ANNETTE SORENSEN Danish mother is thrown in jail for leaving baby on New York sidewalk. No wonder crime is down...
...rich with the images and characters of her favorite stories--not "fantasy" tales, but ancient epics of sailors, travelers and explorers, from Odysseus and Marco Polo to Horatio Hornblower and that island-bound explorer of the sky, Tycho Brahe. The towering absence of Saskia's barely-remembered father, a Danish sailor named Thomas, fills her imagination with images of captains, the sea and Northern lands; the towering presence of her beautiful and world-wise best friend, Jane Singh, fills her dreams with images of willowy, "dusky maidens" welcoming Saskia the Wanderer into distant ports. Carefully balanced between worlds, with...
...gone for Danish novelist Peter Hoeg, who followed his brilliant thriller, Smilla's Sense of Snow, with a couple of mannered, too-clever fictions, A History of Danish Dreams and Borderliners, that found their balance somewhere between interesting and irritating. And the glum report here is that Hoeg's latest novel, The Woman and the Ape (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 261 pages; $23), is a disaster, part animal-rights tract and part millennial doom mongering, that looks at irritating from the underside...
...London--is the most promising of the novel's inharmonious elements. Erasmus is an enormously powerful and intelligent ape of a species not yet discovered by human beings. He is captured and examined by a set of arrogant English zoologists. The wife of one, an alcoholic and depressive Danish beauty named Madelene, foggily sets a rescue in motion. Woman and ape then swing off, Tarzan and Jane fashion, to live in the treetops of a nearby zoological garden. London, in the middle distance, stands for the big, bad, polluted world. Of course...