PETER HOEG - The Woman & The Ape

London, England, The Harvill Press, 1997. 1st British, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall 1860462545 Hardback Translated from Danish by Barbara Haveland.Adam Burden is approaching the culmination of his life's ambitions: domestic bliss in the form of a beautiful and devoted Danish wife, Madelene; professional success in the promised appointment to run a radically reorganised and extended London Zoo as the world' leading forum for enlightened animal conservation.To clinch it all he possesses on his own premises a "highly intelligent anthropoid ape" (illegally imported) that will inevitably require the zoology textbooks to be rewritten. But there is always a fly in the ointment......Slight wear to corner of top corner of D/J.