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Companions by Alexandra Kleeman

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Category: Education
Start date: 17 Nov 2020 06:00 PM
End date: 17 Nov 2020 07:00 PM
Street / Location: 58 Park Ave, New York, NY 10016
City / town: New York
Country: New York, USA
Organizer: Scandinavia House
Name: Chelsea Salander
Email: info@amscan.org
Phone: 212.779.3587
Homepage: http://www.scandinaviahouse.org/events/companions-book-club/

– ONLINE Nordic Book Club. **Nordic Book Club will take place as an online meeting**

Read and discuss Scandinavian literature in translation as part of our Nordic Book Club, now online! Each month we select a novel from some of the best Nordic literary voices. Discussions have typically taken place the last Tuesday of the month at Scandinavia House but will now be taking place bi-weekly as an online meeting. Register here to sign up for the meeting; registrants will receive a web link to where the meeting will take place.

Book club participants will all appear online at the start of the meeting when they log in so that they are able to take part in the conversation. For participants who would prefer not to be visible onscreen, see an easy tutorial online here on how to set a profile image that will appear onscreen instead.

On November 17, we’ll be discussing Companions by Alexandra Kleeman, described as “a blend of arresting detail, digression, and erudition tinged with nostalgia” (Kirkus Reviews) with”vivid imagery and unexpected humor” (New York Times). Camilla, Charles, Alma, Edward, Alwilda and Kristian are a circle of friends hurtling through mid-life. Structured as a series of monologues jumping from one friend to the next, Companions follows their loves, ambitions, pains and anxieties as they age, fall sick, have affairs, grieve, host dinner parties and move between the Lake District, Berlin, Lisbon, Belgrade, Mozambique, New York and, of course, Denmark.

In her first book to be translated into English, Christina Hesselholdt explores everyday life, the weight of the past and the difficulty of intimacy in a uniquely playful and experimental style. At once deeply comic and remarkably insightful, Companions is an exhilarating portrait of life in the twenty-first century.