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Nov 15 4:00 PM
International Writers Book Club November Meetup

11 attended (est.) – No rating yet

We will be reading Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin in November, Milan Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being in December, and probably Nobelist Herta Muller's The Appointment in January.
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11 Yes
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Oct 18 4:00 PM
International Book Club

13 attended (est.) – 4.50 4.503

We will be reading Closely Watched Trains by Czech novelist Bohumil Hrabel for October and Beauty Salon by Mario Bellatin in November. See message board for details.
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Sep 20 4:00 PM
Reading books by international writers September Meetup

13 attended (est.) – 4.00 4.002

The September selection is The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
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Aug 16 4:00 PM
Books by International Writers August Meetup

5 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.001

The book for August 16 is Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard.
The September selection is The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga.
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Jul 19 4:00 PM
Reading books by international writers July Meetup

9 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.002

The book for July 19 is Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis. This will be our first graphic novel. Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa's The Leopard has been pushed back to August 16. I suggest something by the Austrian novelist Peter Handke for September. My Austrian friends say he is the best they have at present. "Ever the enfant terrible, Peter Handke exemplifies the complexity of writing as an Austrian in the post WW2 period, and his work has continually provoked controversy and outrage on a variety of fronts." -- Wikipedia.
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Jun 21 4:00 PM
Reading books by international writers June Meetup

10 attended (est.) – 4.50 4.502

The book for June 21 is Ryszard Kapuscinski's The Emperor.
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May 17 4:00 PM
Reading books by international writers May Meetup

9 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.004

The book for May is The Lover by Marguerite Duras. (Note that Brookline Booksmith has a pile on their remainder table.) For June we are considering taking a detour into non-fiction with Ryszard Kapuscinski's astonishing The Emperor. The book is set in 1974, when Haile Selassie, who had been emperor of Ethiopa for more than forty years, was thrown out. Kapuscinski interviewed members of the palace staff about life as part of a world that was by then thousands of years old and had, over that time, transmorgified into something just spectacularly weird.
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Apr 19 4:00 PM
Reading books by international writers April Meetup

11 attended (est.) – 4.50 4.502

The book for April is J. Nozipo Moraire's Zenzele. May book is Marguerite Duras' The Lover. Note: Brookline Booksmith has a couple of dozen copies of The Lover on its remainder table.
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Mar 15 4:00 PM
Reading books by international writers March Meetup

12 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.003

The book for March will be Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala. April is J. Nozipo Moraire's Zenzele. Nominations for May are solicited.
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Feb 15 4:00 PM
Reading books by international writers February Meetup

17 attended (est.) – 5.00 5.004

The book for February is currently under discussion but will probably be Roberto Bolano's By Night in Chile. The book for March will probably be Andrew X. Pham's Catfish and Mandala. But stay tuned.
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17 Yes
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