The long awaited new novel from the author of )Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow(, which sold 1.4 million copies in its British paperback edition. A fast-paced philosophical thriller, set in contemporary Denmark, it centres on Kaspar Krone, a circus clown whose drafted in to help a mysterious order of nuns. )Miss Smilla's Feeling For Snow( was made into a film starring Gabriel Byrne and Julia Ormond.