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Lauras Verschwinden Im Schnee (2006)

by Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen(Favorite Author)

3.59 of 5 Votes: 3

ISBN

3351034113 (ISBN13: 9783351034115)

languge

English

genre

Fantasy

publisher

Aufbau Verlag

review 1: Many thanks to Jude Parsons for recommending this. A world where the real and the weird blend seamlessly. Newbie teacher Ella Milana is chosen to be the tenth and final member of the Rabbit Back Literature Society founded by the internationally-celebrated children's author Laura White. Society members play a mysterious Game: are they also hiding a terrible secret? And through it all, provocative comments about literature and writing, eg: "We should never talk about what we're writing, or our writing might turn into nothing but talk" and "Winter didn't know many writers who weren't unhappy - and he knew a lot of writers, both in the Society and all around the world. The great majority of them suffered from alcoholism, mental health problems and stress. Excessive thinking wa... mores eating writers away from the inside out."
review 2: Full disclosure: I was chosen a First Reads winner, and received an ARC of The Rabbit Back Literature Society by Pasi Ilmari Jaaskelainen (and translated from the original Finnish by Lola M. Rogers) in the mail. That in no way influenced the review that follows. This book will definitely not appeal to everyone, but literature lovers could just find it to be wonderful. I did.Without wanting to spoil anything about the novel, I can say generally that this is a complicated story about writers and writing, and features at its center an invitation-only society for authors, several of whom are the main characters in the novel. Ella, a young literature teacher and by far the newest member of the society, decides that there are plenty of things in the society's past worth digging up, and sets about to do that. In the course of her endeavor, we learn not only some of the main characters' deep, dark secrets but also how these writers fit into each other's lives, most of them from the time that they were children. The fact that their lives and their writings are all intertwined makes for some very interesting developments.Despite a couple of revealing twists at the end of the book, the reader is left with several unanswered questions and some sense of wondering about what is and isn't real. There are, however, hints given, so I can only assume the author wants readers to answer those questions individually. I will be continuing to ponder a couple of them.I tore through this book in a single day, unable to stop reading it. I might also comment that I did not find one single typo, although this is considered an ARC. I am very grateful to the author and to St. Martin's Press for the opportunity to have read and enjoyed it. less

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