Nîmes Area Book Club
meets every last Friday of the month
meets every last Friday of the month
Friday 26 March 2021 11.00am
The BritsNîmes area book club will meet either via ZOOM or at a member’s home
The BritsNîmes area book club will meet either via ZOOM or at a member’s home
(depending on the Covid regulations in force).
This month we’ll be discussing
This month we’ll be discussing
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda
Ngozi Adichie.
Winner of the 2007 Orange Prize (now renamed the
Women’s Prize), it was recently voted the “Winner of Winners” as part of the 25th
anniversary of the Women’s Prize, and tells the story of the Biafran War
through the perspective of the characters Olanna, Ugwu, and Richard. This is
history that most of us will remember, with TV news footage of starving babies
shown for the first time shocking the world.
In January we read Apeirogon by Colum McCann. The adjectives used by our group to describe this book - dense, vivid, jaw-dropping, thought-inspiring, difficult to read, touching, too long, too complex, unsettling, fascinating, heart-wrenching, painful, repetitive, challenging… - reveal how complex and how interesting a read it was.
In January we read Apeirogon by Colum McCann. The adjectives used by our group to describe this book - dense, vivid, jaw-dropping, thought-inspiring, difficult to read, touching, too long, too complex, unsettling, fascinating, heart-wrenching, painful, repetitive, challenging… - reveal how complex and how interesting a read it was.
For practical reasons attendance is limited to 14.
Please send me an e-mail if you wish to join.
Geneviève Vincent-Arnaud
genevieve@britsnimes.com
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