Book Club ONLINE
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Social
Start date
Sat, Sep 25 01:00 PM
End date
Sat, Oct 23 02:00 PM
Address / City
5211 N Clark St Chicago
Location
IL, US
The Museum book club reads a wide range of books from the Nordic countries.
This is a free event and you can register by emailing museum@samac.org.
Here are the upcoming book club books and their dates, the 4th Saturday of each month:
September 25 – Faceless killers by Henning Mankell
October 23 – Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard
November – Stallo by Stefan Spjut
December – Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlöf
The book can be bought in the Museum Store.
About Faceless killers (The first book in the Wallander series)
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.
Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.
This is a free event and you can register by emailing museum@samac.org.
Here are the upcoming book club books and their dates, the 4th Saturday of each month:
September 25 – Faceless killers by Henning Mankell
October 23 – Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard
November – Stallo by Stefan Spjut
December – Christ Legends by Selma Lagerlöf
The book can be bought in the Museum Store.
About Faceless killers (The first book in the Wallander series)
It was a senselessly violent crime: on a cold night in a remote Swedish farmhouse an elderly farmer is bludgeoned to death, and his wife is left to die with a noose around her neck. And as if this didn’t present enough problems for the Ystad police Inspector Kurt Wallander, the dying woman’s last word is foreign, leaving the police the one tangible clue they have–and in the process, the match that could inflame Sweden’s already smoldering anti-immigrant sentiments.
Unlike the situation with his ex-wife, his estranged daughter, or the beautiful but married young prosecuter who has peaked his interest, in this case, Wallander finds a problem he can handle. He quickly becomes obsessed with solving the crime before the already tense situation explodes, but soon comes to realize that it will require all his reserves of energy and dedication to solve.
Organizer
Swedish American Museum
Phone
773.728.8111
Email
museum@samac.org
