Book Club

Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, Italy

Join 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, […]

Book Club

Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, Italy

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, […]

Book Club

Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, Italy

Join 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 […]

Book Club

Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, Italy

Welcome 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 […]

Book Club

Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, Italy

Join 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 […]

Book Club

Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, Italy

Join 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 […]

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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, Italy

Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, January 28th.  The book selected for our January presentation is “A Man’s Place” by Annie Ernaux ( 1993/ 80 pages).  David Pickup is the presenter. …Ernaux won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2022 and this novel/memoir has become a contemporary classic of French writing. […]

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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, Italy

Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, Februay 25th. Floria Contais the presenter. Silverview by John le Carre (2022/ 224 pages).  Silverview is a novel by British writer John le Carre, published posthumously on 12October 2021. The book was completed for publication by his son Nick Cornwell. In the afterword, he noted […]

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Circolo dei Lettori Via Giambattista Bogino, 9, Torino, TO, Italy

Join us for this month’s Book Club presentation on Tuesday, March 25th.  The book is  Dispossessed by Szilard Borbely (2016/ 304 pages). Graziella Viglione is the presenter. A literary sensation on its original publication in Hungary, this hypnotic, hauntingly beautiful first novel from the acclaimed, award-winning poet and author Szilárd Borbély depicts the poverty and cruelty […]