The Jade Cat

By Suzanne Brøgger

Book Overview

At the heart of the narrative and of this Jewish family unit is the grandmother, Katze, and her memories. She tells the story from her patrician apartment in Copenhagen's Gammel M nt 14, where she has lived since the 1940s. It is a haunting portrait of the pride, conceit, grandness, and despair that has followed the L vin family while the world outside the old apartment gradually fell apart. The family remains prey to drug addiction and suicide attempts. Some escape into sex, others into Evangelical politics or religion. With an unlikely but sympathetic cast of grotesques, this gripping saga of Danish highlife and lowlife through three generations of a tormented family is as diverse and uncompromising as William Styron's Sophie's Choice and Isabel Allende's House of Spirits.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1590202309
• ISBN13: 9781590202302
• Release Date: September 2009
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 393 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.2"