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Borderliners
Borderliners
Author: Peter Hoeg, Barbara Haveland (Translator)
Strange things are happening at Biehl's Academy when this elite school opens its doors to a group of orphans and reform-school rejects, kids at the end of the system's tether. The school is run by a peculiar set of rules by which every minute is regimented and controlled. Soon, they suspect they are guinea pigs in a bizarre social experi...  more »
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ISBN-13: 9780385315081
ISBN-10: 0385315082
Publication Date: 10/1/1995
Pages: 288
Rating:
  • Currently 3.1/5 Stars.
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3.1 stars, based on 20 ratings
Publisher: Delta
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover, Audio Cassette
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marciamarcia avatar reviewed Borderliners on + 270 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 2
A captivating book about childhood and education, through the eyes of a child who is considered "borderline" because he doesn't fit into the usual boxes. One of my all-time favorites.
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a very interesting take on another book "Replay"... this also had some orwell 1984 type themes... i like hoeg's writing... detailed, but not too revealing... layering... much like his work with smila's sense of snow...
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Helpful Score: 2
Borderliners is one of my favorite books. Peter Hoeg is extraordinarily gifted at creating characters that you become emotionally invested in. The book's central theme is "time" and within the story, you go back and forth between the main character as an adult and his time as a child in an experimental orphanage of sorts. The book is full of the observations about time as seen through the eyes of several children and the pain and horror they experience in their "home". This is a beautiful, tragic, hopeful, frightening look at life and the ebb and flow of time. How time changes us and we, in effect, can alter time. The prose flows across the pages, and will become a part of you. I read this one at least once a year. It is truly beautiful.
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Great approach to the troubled juvenile genre.
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Interesting and mysterious, but not as good as Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow.
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Students in an elite private school in Copenhagen discover that the school is using them in an experiment to control children--an experiment that, almost inevitably, has tragic consequences. A disturbing book from the author of Smilla's Sense of Snow.


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