About the book: 2005 / In his only book of stories, the famous Danish writer appears as a master of the small form: nine stories, the events of each of which take place on the night of March 19, 1929 years, are united by a continuous “night” tonality and Høge’s traditional close, slightly detached and ironic attention to the most fragile details of European civilization. “Night Stories” - nine stories, the action of which takes place on the night of March 19, 1929 - in different parts of the world: in the Belgian Congo, in Paris, in the port of Lisbon, in Copenhagen and, of course, “on the very edge of Denmark.” But as always with Peter Høeg, the main events unfold in the inner space of a person, be it a mathematician, a judge, a dancer, a mirror maker, an avant-garde artist or a failed leader of the Danish fascists. United by a common “night” tone, all these stories, “one way or another, are about love,” loneliness and the search for final clarity, “in the circumstances as they were on the night of March 19, 1929.” “Night Stories” (1990 ) is the second book by Peter Hoeg, immediately preceding his world-famous novel Smilla and Her Sense of Snow» (1992).