Jan 2022 – The Enlightenment of the Greengage Tree -Shokoofeh Azar
Title – The Enlightenment Of The Greengage Tree Author – Shokoofeh Azar Book Group 1 – Meeting – January 28th 2022 The Enlightenment Of The Greengage Tree, is a book written with ‘magic realism’ as the main writing genre. The book had been originally written in Persian and has been translated by an undisclosed translator. […]
Jan, 2022 – The Black Wave – Kim Ghattas
Title – The Black Wave Author – Kim Ghattas Book Group 2 – Meeting – January 22, 2022 Black Wave is a history of Middle Eastern conflict and why the Middle East is in a state of turmoil today. Award-winning journalist and author Kim Ghattas argues that the turning point in the modern history of […]
Nov – 2021 – Toss of a Lemon – Padma Vishwanathan
In south India in 1896, ten-year old Sivakami was about to embark on a new life. Hanumarathnam, a village healer with some renown as an astrologer, has approached her parents with a marriage proposal. In keeping with custom, he provides his prospective in-laws with his horoscope. The problem is that this includes a prediction, albeit […]
Nov – 2021 – Dragon – Rose Gan
Book Group 1, November 2021 Review Dragon – Rose Gan Our Friday book group continued on Zoom and was thrilled to have our first session with an author. Rose Gan, author of November’s book DRAGON, joined us for a lively discussion from speaking about powerful women, colonialism, and what it’s like to get published. It […]
Oct – 2021 – Eat the Buddha – Barbara Demick
Book Group 2 – October 2021 review Eat the Buddha by Barbara Demick Wow! From self-immolation to caterpillar fungus, we were introduced to Tibet in the book “Eat the Buddha” by Barbara Demick. Demick has written another book on N Korea called “Nothing to Envy” which we had previously enjoyed. She did not disappoint in […]
Sept – 2021 -The Committed – Viet Thanh Nguyen
BG 2 – September ‘21 Review The Committed by Viet Thanh Nguyen The Committed” is a sequel to Nguyen’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Sympathizer”. The books share a narrator, a Communist spy, half-Vietnamese and half-French, who refers to himself as “a man of two faces and two minds.” The man of two minds attended a […]
Sept – 2021 – The Vegetarian – Han Kang
BG 1 – September ‘21 review The Vegetarian – Han Kang The Vegetarian is a South Korean three-part novel written by Han Kang and first published in 2007. Based on Han’s 1997 short story “The Fruit of My Woman”, The Vegetarian is set in modern-day Seoul and tells the story of Yeong-hye, a part-time graphic […]
Aug – 2021 – Nine Lives of Pakistan – Declan Walsh
Nine Lives of Pakistan- by Declan Walsh Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times’s international correspondents. His portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this country through the dramatic lives of nine individuals. While on assignment in Pakistan, as the country careened between crises, he travels throughout the country, […]
Aug – 2021 – The Waiting Years – Fumiko Enchi
BG1 – August 2021 – start of new season The Waiting Years by Fumiko Enchi A short read with beautifully developed characters and evocative scenes, first published in 1957, (John Bester translated into English in 1971) took the author seven years to write. The novel won the prestigious Noma prize. Set in the Meiji period […]
July – 2021 – The Widows of Malabar Hill – Sujata Massey
Book group 2 report for July – Nabila We had a bonus Book meeting on July 15th . We met on Skype, The book discussed was the widows on Malabar Hill By Sujata Massey. Barbara Angell led the discussion, There were 7 in attendance. They rated the book a 8/10. The book review is below: […]