
Cunningham is best-known for a book that many more people have heard of than read: The Hours, which was made into a film starring Nicole Kidman’s prosthetic nose. I’ve read The Hours, as well as his more recent novel Nightfall, and the Snow Queen is much closer in style and content to the latter. I actually read [a Wikipedia summary of] the eponymous Hans Christian Andersen story before starting it, but, at least on the surface, it seems to have provided more of a loose association of motifs than a solid structural foundation for the novel. Continue reading The Snow Queen