Primeros reseñadores

From Denmark to Riga and back, through two World Wars, to India and Afghanistan, to America as it was and as it is, and it takes us through boarding schools, mental hospitals, and almshouses for the poor, Suzanne Brøgger's THE JADE CAT is a sweeping family saga of almost limitless ambition. 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, conceitedness, 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 the Spirits.