Nordic Book Club Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir
Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions typically take place the last Tuesday of the month in the Halldór Laxness Library at Scandinavia House and online in our Goodreads group during the last week of the month.
This month, we’re reading Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize. Compulsive to fix things, 50-year-old Jónas Ebenezer finds himself unable to fix his own life — his divorce and discovery that he is not his daughter’s biological father has sent him into existential crisis. Armed with little more than his toolbox, he flies to an unnamed and recently war-torn country, where he books a room at the Hotel Silence. As he begins to build a community among the other hotel residents, their own deep scars enable him to see his wounds in a new light.
When: Tue., Dec. 3, 2019 at 6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America
58 Park Ave.
212-779-3587
Price: Free
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Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club. Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions typically take place the last Tuesday of the month in the Halldór Laxness Library at Scandinavia House and online in our Goodreads group during the last week of the month.
This month, we’re reading Hotel Silence by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir, winner of the Icelandic Literary Prize. Compulsive to fix things, 50-year-old Jónas Ebenezer finds himself unable to fix his own life — his divorce and discovery that he is not his daughter’s biological father has sent him into existential crisis. Armed with little more than his toolbox, he flies to an unnamed and recently war-torn country, where he books a room at the Hotel Silence. As he begins to build a community among the other hotel residents, their own deep scars enable him to see his wounds in a new light.
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