This is the official 'group' site for my book club. The club is a cross-genre one in which we try to read a little bit of everything. Some years we tackle a theme, other years we're more ecletic in our selections.
JANUARY's BOOK:
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg.
DESCRIPTION:
The title of this quiet, absorbing...
more »This is the official 'group' site for my book club. The club is a cross-genre one in which we try to read a little bit of everything. Some years we tackle a theme, other years we're more ecletic in our selections.
JANUARY's BOOK:
Smilla's Sense of Snow by Peter Hoeg.
DESCRIPTION:
The title of this quiet, absorbing suspense novel by a Danish author only suggests the intriguing story it tells. After young Isaiah Christiansen falls from a snow-covered roof in present-day Copenhagen, something about his lone rooftop tracks--and the fact that the boy had a fear of heights--obsesses Smilla Qaavigaaq Jaspersen, a woman who had befriended him. Smilla is 37, unmarried, and, like Isaiah, part of Denmark's small Eskimo/Greenlander community. She is also a minor Danish authority on the properties and classification of ice. Her search for what had frightened the boy leads her to uncover information about his father's mysterious death on a secret expedition to Greenland, a mission funded by a powerful Danish corporation involved in a strange conspiracy stretching back to WW II. As related in Smilla's sober, no-nonsense narration, the plot acquires credibility even as its details become more bizarre.
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