The Quiet Girl honestly didn't work for me. It follows a man named Kasper, who has superhuman hearing abilities, as he runs from the police and tries to find a missing girl. He is wanted in several countries and is drowning in debt, which complicates him finding this child. He ends up being brought in by a group of nuns who promise they will help him, but they end up being more than what he was expecting.

As much as I liked the premise of the book, there were a few things that really didn't sit well with me. First is the racism towards one of the characters. She is a Black woman who is referred to as "the African" and is not given much more character or personality beyond that, to the point that we don't even know her name. She is in most of the book as well, so there is no excuse for her to not have any real personality or character to her either.

I also struggled with the writing quite a bit. There were lines I really enjoyed, but it was hampered with a translation (that as someone with a Bachelor's degree in translation, I am assuming was a literal translation) which left many of the sentences as sentence fragments. This made it really hard to read as there were so many sentences that were just chopped in half during the translation process. It also felt as if several scenes were missing from the book, as it was hard to follow at times. There were moments in which it felt as if there should have been extra scenes to act as a transition, but instead were missing so they just jolted me around as a reader. ( )

Ein merkwürdig zusammenhangloses Buch.
Høeg springt wild zwischen verschiedenen Zeiten und Erzählsträngen hin und her. Dabei gibt so viele verschiedene Personen, die sich zum Teil ähneln, dass ich immer wieder den Faden verlor und oft nicht recht wusste, was diese Person in früheren Abschnitten getan hatte.
So ging mir der Überblick verloren, und damit auch die Freude am Buch. Grundsätzlich beschreibt Høeg faszinierende Personen und Fähigkeiten, ohne zu sehr ins Fantastische abzugleiten, die Handlung ist wild und spannend. Leider konnte ich das nicht so wirklich genießen. Die stellenweise sprachlich merkwürdige Übersetzung Urban-Halles, an dessen Stil ich mich nie gewöhnen werde, tat ein übriges dazu, dass ich dieses Buch weit weniger genossen habe als andere aus der Feder des Autors.
Schade. ( )

Letto con piacere, nonostante l'abbia trovato parecchio oscuro, ma non tra i miei preferiti di Peter Hoeg.

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I really liked the beginning. It fell apart for me in the second half. ( )

Deserves more than 3 stars - very nearly four. I read the book in short bursts but not leaving too long between readings - just right as it is a bit repetitive. More head than heart but intriguing, mystic and ultimately inconclusive - which I like. Another reviewer called it "brittle intellectualism and dreamy philosophy" and that's a great description. ( )