December Book Club

This month our book club will be discussing Hygiene and the Assassin by Amelie Nothomb (translated from the French by Alison Anderson). Bill, who chose this title, likes books to be under 200 pages, but not necessarily easy. While I found that the reading was easy, the understanding is not so much. I did understand the plot - a bald, obese, reclusive old man who has won the Nobel Prize in literature is about to die, and he has granted several journalists interviews with him. The first four get nowhere with the curmudgeon, but the fifth, a woman, stands her own against him and eventually earns his respect by revealing how much she knows about him and his work. As usual, I will be interesting in hearing what others have to say about this book.