Borderliners KINDLE MOBI by Peter Hoeg H.A.

Borderliners is the story of Peter, Katarina and August – three damaged children in an experimental school in Copenhagen in the 1960s. It's less well known than Hoeg's other novels (particularly Smila's Sense of Snow) but it's perhaps Hoeg's highest achievement as a writer. Using a narrative structure made up of short pieces, sometimes in the present, sometimes in the past, it is as though Høeg is deliberately trying to sidestep time with his structure, as though to communicate his character’s discomfort with the linearity of time itself.
Biehl’s Academy accepts both “normal” pupils and those from various care institutions in an attempt to integrate them into “normal” society. Some of these “borderliners” are borderline in terms of mental age or ability. Others, like middle-class Katharine, perform well in tests but are extremely traumatised, in her case due to the death of her mother followed by the suicide of her father.
Into the lives of Peter and Katarina comes August, watched at all times by the teachers, not allowed to move more than a foot away from the playground wall, gassing himself on the cooker in order to sleep at night.
This is an angry, beautiful, profound and moving book. It makes us feel rather than intellectualise about a subject that is still as relevant – how we, as a society treat our “problem” people. How we judge rather than care. How those on the borderline can survive or be lost to us.
And how we fail them.