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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for our next Book Club gathering! The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead (400 pages, 2016) Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award, this #1 New York Times bestseller chronicles a young slave's adventures as she makes a desperate bid for freedom in the antebellum South. Cora is a slave on […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for our next Book Club gathering! China Dream by Ma Jian (192pp, 2018) After decades of loyal service, Ma Daode, a corrupt and lecherous party official, has been appointed director of the China Dream Bureau, charged with promoting President Xi Jinping’s China Dream of national rejuvenation. But just as he is about to […]
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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, ItalyJoin us for our next Book Club gathering! Harsh Times by Mario Vargas Llosa (320pp/2021) Political fiction from Peruvian winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Guatemala, 1954. A CIA-supported military coup topples the government. Behind this violent act is a lie passed off as truth, which forever changed the development of Latin America: that […]