Påskekrimmen Book Club - Broken karin Fossum
Category: Events Calendar
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Apr 21, 2022 11am-12pm
Location
Rediscovered Books - Boise
180 N 8th St
Details
Join crime fans, Norwegian readers, maybe a few Norwegian students for a Påskekrimmen Book Club and Fundraiser. All proceeds will benefit the American College of Norway in Moss, Norway. There is a peculiar and sort of cool Norwegian tradition, called Påskekrimmen. Påske = Easter, Krimmen = Crime. In Norway, there is an Easter tradition of reading crime stories during this week.
Our Påskekrimmen Book Club pick for 2022 is Broken by Karin Fossum (2011).
A woman wakes up in the middle of the night. A strange man is in her bedroom. She lies there in silence, paralyzed with fear. The woman is an author and the man one of her characters, one in a long line that waits in her driveway for the time when she'll tell their stories. He is so desperate that he has resorted to breaking into her house and demanding that she begin. He, the author decides, is named Alvar Eide, forty-two years old, single, works in a gallery. He lives a quiet, orderly life and likes it that way--no demands, no unpleasantness. Until the icy winter morning when a young drug addict, skinny and fragile, walks into the gallery. Alvar gives her a cup of coffee to warm her up. And then one day she appears on his doorstep. Broken is an unconventional, subtle, and disturbing mystery from a master of the form.
