Every month a group of willing and hungry readers gather to discuss a new book, have a nice chat and practice their English. New members are welcome!
This month's book of choice is:
"Burnt Sugar" by Avni Doshi.
The meeting will be held ONLINE. 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.
In her youth, Tara was wild. She abandoned her loveless marriage to join an ashram, endured a brief stint as a beggar (mostly to spite her affluent parents), and spent years chasing after a dishevelled, homeless 'artist' - all with her young child in tow. Now she is forgetting things, mixing up her maid's wages and leaving the gas on all night, and her grown-up daughter is faced with the task of caring for a woman who never cared for her.
Every month a group of willing and hungry readers gather to discuss a new book, have a nice chat and practice their English. New members are welcome!
This month's book of choice is:"Outline" (2014) by Rachel Cusk.
The meeting will be held ONLINE. 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.
"Outline" is a novel in ten conversations. Spare and lucid, it follows a novelist teaching a course in creative writing over an oppressively hot summer in Athens. She leads her student in storytelling exercises. She meets other writers for dinner. She goes swimming in the Ionian Sea with her seatmate from the place. The people she encounters speak volubly about themselves, their fantasies, anxieties, pet theories, regrets, and longings. And through these disclosures, a portrait of the narrator is drawn by contrast, a portrait of a woman learning to face great a great loss.
"Outline" is the first book in a short and yet epic cycle – a masterful trilogy which will be remembered as one of the most significant achievements of our times.