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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for our next Book Club gathering! Kilometre 101 by Maxim Osipov (296 pages/2022) Russian writer and cardiologist, publishing-house founder, one-time research fellow at the University of California, Maxim Osipov practised medicine near Moscow until 2022, when he moved to Germany. In these times of war, when it is difficult to understand or sympathise […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for our next Book Club gathering! The Plague by Albert Camus (272 pages/1947) Philosoper, journalist, resistance fighter Camus was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1957. The townspeople of Oran are in the grip of a deadly plague, which condemns its victims to a swift and horrifying death. Fear, isolation and claustrophobia […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for our next Book Club gathering! The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker (336 pages/2019) Queen Briseis has been stolen from her conquered homeland and given as a concubine to a foreign warrior. The warrior is Achilles: famed hero, loathed enemy, ruthless butcher, darkly troubled spirit. Briseis's fate is now indivisibly entwined […]
Book Club September 26th
Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for our next Book Club gathering on September 26th. Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart (2020/430 pages). Winner of the Booker Prize 2020. The 2020 Booker-winning novel could have been called Agnes. The mother of the title character has a tragic nobility to her; you will her not to succumb to drink. Yes, she […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for our next Book Club gathering on October 31. This month’s book is…Bewilderment by Richard Powell (Pulitzer Prize Winner) (340pp/2021). Theo Byrne is a promising young astrobiologist who has found a way to search for life on other planets dozens of light years away. He is also the widowed father of a most […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for our next Book Club gathering on December 5th. Piranesi by Susanna Clarke (272pp/2021). Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, January 30th. The Miniaturist by Jessie Burton (2014/400 pages). On an autumn day in 1686, eighteen-year-old Nella Oortman knocks at the door of a grand house in the wealthiest quarter of Amsterdam. She has come from the country to begin a new life as the wife […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for this month's Book Club on Wednesday, February 28th. The Flanders Road by Claude Simon (original publication 1960-reprint 2018/192 pages). During the German advance through Belgium into France in 1940, Captain de Reixach is shot dead by a sniper. Three witnesses, remember him and help the reader piece together the realities behind the […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, March 26th Mr. Norris Changes Trains by Christopher Isherwood (1933/280 pages). After a chance encounter on a train the English teacher William Bradshaw starts a close friendship with the mildly sinister Arthur Norris. Norris is a man of contradictions; lavish but heavily in debt, excessively polite […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, May 7th. We meet at the Circolo dei Lettori in Via Giambattista Bogino 9 at 10.30 am. The book for May 7th is The Promise by Damon Galgut (2021/ 304 pps) Booker Prize Winner 2021. “The Promise” charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin 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, […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for the next Book Club on Tuesday, June 25th. We meet at the Circolo dei Lettori in Via Giambattista Bogino 9 at 10.30 am. The book selected is "The World and All That It Holds" by Aleksander Hemon (352 pps/2023). In all its hilarious, heartbreaking, erotic, philosophical glory, Hemon’s latest novel showcases his celebrated […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyWelcome back IWCT members! We have an exciting year planned for your reading pleasure. The Book Club’s first presentation of the year is Tuesday, September 24th. The book selected for our September presentation is “Prophet’s Song” by Paul Lynch (244pp/2023) (Booker Prize 2023). Jack Ruane is the presenter. …Ireland is falling apart. The country is […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, October 29th. The book selected for our October presentation is “Eileen” by Ottessa Moshfegh (2016/ 272 pages). Graziella Viglione is the presenter. …Twenty something Eileen Dunlop is bored and unhappy, trapped looking after her alcoholic father, stuck in a dead-end job working at a […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, December 3rd. The book selected for our December presentation is “Blackwater” by Joyce Carol Oates (1993/ 160 pages). “Black Water” was a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist in 1992 and was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize in 1993. Ornella Cerutti is the presenter. …The […]