The Jade Cat A Novel
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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 Mønt 14, where she has lived since the 1940s. It is a haunting portrait of the pride, conceit, grandness, and despair that has followed the Løvin 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.
Book information
ISBN: | 9781590202302 |
Publisher: | The Overlook Press |
Imprint: | The Overlook Press |
Pub date: | 03 Sep 2009 |
Language: | English |
Number of pages: | 416 |
Weight: | 667g |
Height: | 233mm |
Width: | 160mm |
Spine width: | 34mm |