Event Listing - Literary Arts, Books
Tue Feb 17, 2009

Reading and book signing

Peter Fogtdal

Author, The Tsar's Dwarf


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Location
Date and Time
The Booksmith
1644 Haight St
San Francisco, CA 94117
district: San Francisco

Tue Feb 17, 2009 (7:30 pm)

Description
Having written 12 novels in Danish, The Tsar's Dwarf is Peter Fogtdal's first book to be translated in English. In the novel, Soerine, a deformed female dwarf from Denmark, is given as a gift to Tsar Peter the Great, who is smitten by her freakishness and intellect. Against her will, the Tsar takes Soerine to St. Petersburg, where she becomes a jester in his court. There, she lives a life that both compels and repels her. The Tsar's Dwarf is a masterfully told and brilliantly translated novel about aberration, endurance, and the human condition.