The Jade Cat

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Suzanne Brogger, Anne Born

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Danish

The Harvill Press
13 October 2014

Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

The Jade Cat traces the true story of a well-to-do, worldly wise, half-Jewish family, and the private and historical tragedies that follow them through three generations.

Beginning with the great-grandfather Isidor Levin and his emigration from Poland in the 19th century, his establishment of The Royal Danish Distillery - creators of the famous Danish snaps - and the family's successful assimilation in Denmark, the story follows the children and grandchildren, as they look for successes in Denmark and abroad, in business and within the arts.

Suzanne Brogger's family saga takes us 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. At the heart of the narrative 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, and her story is a haunting portrait of the pride, conceitedness, grandness, and despair, that has followed the Levin 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. Regn becomes a UN diplomat in the Third World, his wife tries to kill their son, while their daughter serves her sexual apprenticeship in a Thai monastery-brothel and after a brief period of social acceptability, ends her days a bag lady in Copenhagen.

As diverse and uncompromising as William Styron's Sophie's Choice and Isabel Allende's House of the Spirits. To have conjured up a cast of grotesques and rendered them sympathetic is a challenge that Suzanne Brogger has triumphantly brought off. .

By: Suzanne Brogger
Translated by: Anne Born
Imprint: The Harvill Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 153mm, Spine: 28mm
Weight: 517g
ISBN: 9781846559068
ISBN 10: 1846559065
Pages: 400
Publication Date: 13 October 2014
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Suzanne Br-gger was born in Copenhagen in 1944 and published her first book, Deliver Us from Love, in 1973. Over a number of works that draw largely on her own experience of life she has established herself as one of Denmark's most controversial and best-loved writers.

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