Join us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, May 28th. We meet at the Circolo dei Lettori in Via Giambattista Bogino 9 at 10.30 am.
The book for May 28th is Whereabouts by J. Lahiri (176 pps/2021). The new novel from the Pulitzer Prize Winning, Man Booker Prize-shortlisted author: a haunting portrait of a woman, her decisions, her conversations, her solitariness, in a beautiful and lonely Italian city.
A rare work of fiction, “Whereabouts” – first written in Italian and then translated by the author herself – brims with the impulse to cross barriers. By grafting herself onto a new literary language, Lahiri has pushed herself to a new level of artistic achievement. A dazzling evocation of a city, it captures a woman standing on one of life’s thresholds, reflecting on what has been lost and facing, with equal hope and rage, what may lie ahead. Presented by David Pickup
Contact Tamar at bookclub@iwct.it for more information or if you’re interested in joining the email.
