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The woman and the ape / [electronic resource] Peter Høeg ; translated by Barbara Haveland.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: Danish Publication details: New York : Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996.Edition: 1st edDescription: 261 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0374292035 (alk. paper)
  • 9780374292034 (alk. paper)
Uniform titles:
  • Kvinden og aben. English
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 839.8/1374 20
LOC classification:
  • PT8176.18.O335 K8513 1996
Online resources: Summary: In London, a housewife repays her scientist husband for making her life miserable by releasing an equally unhappy ape on which he was experimenting. Together they take off to a wildlife reserve where they have an affair and she teaches him to talk. Part comedy, part study of animal exploitation, by a Danish writer, author of Smilla's Sense of Snow.
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In London, a housewife repays her scientist husband for making her life miserable by releasing an equally unhappy ape on which he was experimenting. Together they take off to a wildlife reserve where they have an affair and she teaches him to talk. Part comedy, part study of animal exploitation, by a Danish writer, author of Smilla's Sense of Snow.

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