Adultery, insanity, enlightement and the bluest blood - this compelling and prize-winning historical novel exposes the seamy underside of eighteenth-century Denmark.
Per Olov Enquist is one of Sweden's most acclaimed writers- a novelist, playwright and poet with works published in 26 countries. The Visit of the Royal Physician is his first novel since Captain Nemo's Library in the early 90s.
One of the most dramatic and memorable historical novels to have
hit these shores in years...Fierce, direct, imbued with wintry,
windswept poetry, Enquist's style makes 18th-century court intrigue
as rough and raucous as a mafia feud
*Independent*
One of those rare, magical books that creates its own world so
modestly that it is only halfway through that you realise you have
been entranced
*Daily Telegraph*
An impressive historical novel...brilliantly mixing motifs of
madness, role-playing and control
*The Times*
An elegant and gorgeous novel
*Los Angeles Times*
was hard to put down. Love, idealism, corruption and insanity in
the Danish court of the Enlightenment: the world he draws is so
complete, it s a very absorbing read.
*Rachel Seiffert, Daily Telegraph*
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