The English Reading Club goes ONLINE!

While we wait for the emergency to end, the group keeps on reading and discussing their books through an online video meeting open to everyone. 

To join the club in the discussion, write to us at bibliotecainternazionale@comune.parma.it or send us a message on our Facebook Page. We will reply to you and send the link to the video meeting that will take place Wednesday April 29th a 6.00 pm.

This month's book of choice is:

"The Assistant" (1957) by Bernard Malamud

Frank Alpine, a drifter fleeing from his past, runs straight into struggling Brooklyn grocer Morris Bober. Seeing a chance to atone for past sins, Frank becomes Bober's assistant and keeps shop when the owner takes ill. But it is Bober's daughter, Helen, who gives Frank a real reason to stay around, even as he begins to steal from the store.

Widely considered as one of the great American-Jewish novels, The Assistant is a classic look at the social and racial divides of a country still in its infancy, and a stunning evocation of the immigrant experience - of cramped circumstances and great expectations.