ABOUT
THE BOOK

Adam Burden is approaching the culmination of his life’s ambitions: domestic bliss in the form of his devoted wife, Madelaine; professional success in the promised appointment to run a radically revamped London Zoo; and (illegal) possession of “a highly intelligent anthropoid ape”. But if Adam has plans, so do Madelaine and Erasmus, the ape. An elopement takes place and the search that follows is not merely for a missing woman and an anthropoid. Peter Høeg was born in 1957 and published his first novel in 1988. His best known book is Miss Smilla’s Feelings for Snow.