The International Authors Book Club meets the first Wednesday of the month at 7:00 pm in the Jennings Room at the Main Library. The discussion leader is Khorshed Randeria.
Register online or call 256-3160.
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October 7, 2009
Shadow of the Wind
by Carolos Luis Zafon |
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November 4, 2009
Banker to the Poor: Microlending and the Battle Against World Poverty
by Mohammed Yunus |
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December 2, 2009
Blindness
by Jose Saramago
Register online or call 255-7308
"Jose Saramago weaves a bleak, apocalyptic tale in his most recently translated novel, "Blindness." The Portuguese novelist, winner of the 1998 Nobel Prize in literature, tells of the destruction of society caused not by nuclear holocaust or an endless winter, but carried on the wings of contagion. It is a story that is stark, original and unforgettable." (from The Denver Post (Denver, CO) Oct 25, 1998): pG-05) |
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January 6, 2010
White Tiger
by Aravind Adiga
"What makes an entrepreneur in today's India? Bribes and murder, says this fiercely satirical first novel." (from Kirkus Reviews; 2/15/2008, Vol. 76 Issue 4, p159-159, 1/4p) |
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February 3, 2010
An Irish Country Doctor
by Patrick Taylor
"Based on journals the author kept during his early years in medical practice, this debut novel describes a young man's apprenticeship as a doctor in rural Ireland during the early 1960s." (from Kirkus Reviews; 12/15/2006, Vol. 74 Issue 24, p1242-1242, 1/3p) |
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March 3, 2010
Land of the Green Plums
by Herta Mueller
"The memory of this bitter novel sticks like a fishbone in the throat. The Land of Green Plums unfolds in Ceausescu's Romania with its atmosphere of shadowy fear. This is the story of a group of students who try - but fail - to overcome the totalitarian darkness. In a dictatorship which has eroded all humanity, resistance was hopeless." (from The Guardian (London, England) (July 25, 1998): p10. (608 words)
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April 7, 2010
Snow Country
by Yasunari Kawabata
"The novels of Yasunari Kawabata unfold as quietly and delicately as a fan. In 1968, he became Japan's first and only Nobel laureate in literature; four years later, he committed suicide. Kawabata is best known in this country for two novels, ''Snow Country'' (1957), about the relationship between a Tokyo dilettante and a geisha in a winter resort, and ''A Thousand Cranes'' (1959), about a group of people whose lives are determined by guilt and incestuous desires." ( from The New York Times (July 21, 1987) p. C17 ) |
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