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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190530
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190531
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SUMMARY:risc book club: freshwater
DESCRIPTION:By Akwaeke Emezi – Nigeria (hardback £10)\nAda is the second child of Saul\, a Nigerian doctor\, and his Malaysian wife Saachi\, a nurse. When Ada is still a child\, Saachi leaves to work abroad\, first in Saudi Arabia and then in the UK. Although she visits her family in Nigeria once or twice each year\, she will never again live in the home she once made with her proud and impatient husband. At 16\, Ada also leaves Nigeria\, for the United States\, where she spends her turbulent college years in Virginia. All the while\, there is a claim on her head \, “for being born incorrectly\, for not returning\, for crossing the ocean sifted with death”. While the effects of this claim might read like a curse\, they are really a manifestation of a demand that she follow a predestined path. Ada is an ogbanje\, a spirit child who is born repeatedly to the same parents\, taunting and torturing them with many reincarnations. While most ogbanjes die as children\, Ada survives into adulthood\, constantly struggling against a pull towards self-annihilation.\nWhen Ada finds a measure of peace\, it is not a consequence of eliminating any of her selves: instead\, it emanates from accepting that she is “a village full of faces and a compound full of bones\, translucent thousands”. When we return to Nigeria\, the narrator is Ada: not the tortured Ada who made her way tentatively into earlier chapters in the form of poems and diary entries\, but a voice infused with We’s poetic cadence and Asughara’s blistering yet intimate tone. It is a fitting culmination for the extraordinary journeyFreshwater charts\, a manifestation of Ada’s realisation that she is irrevocably an amalgamation of all her varied and even divergent selves. 240pp
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-freshwater/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190627
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190628
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SUMMARY:risc book club: disoriental
DESCRIPTION:By Negar Djavadi (tr by Tina Kover) – Iran/France\nKimiâ Sadr fled Iran at the age of ten in the company of her mother and sisters to join her father in France. Now twenty-five and facing the future she has built for herself as well as the prospect of a new generation\, Kimiâ is inundated by her own memories and the stories of her ancestors\, which come to her in unstoppable\, uncontainable waves. In the waiting room of a Parisian fertility clinic\, generations of flamboyant Sadrs return to her\, including her formidable great-grandfather Montazemolmolk\, with his harem of fifty-two wives\, and her parents\, Darius and Sara\, stalwart opponents of each regime that befalls them.\nIn this high-spirited\, kaleidoscopic story\, key moments of Iranian history\, politics\, and culture punctuate stories of family drama and triumph. Yet it is Kimiâ herself––punk-rock aficionado\, storyteller extraordinaire\, a Scheherazade of our time\, and above all a modern woman divided between family traditions and her own “disorientalization”––who forms the heart of this bestselling and beloved novel. 320pp
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-disoriental/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190725
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190726
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SUMMARY:risc book club: the reluctant mullah
DESCRIPTION:Alone in his room in a London madrasah\, Musah tries on an abaya\, a hijab and a shawl: he has crossed over – to outsiders he has become a Muslim woman. In a Pakistani haveli\, his cousin\, the nubile Iram\, waits to fulfil the will of Dadaji\, their grandfather. She and Musa must marry. When Musa’s siblings and friends step in to help him fight tradition and achieve what he wants – a love match – their efforts lead to outrage\, hilarity and\, ultimately\, tragedy.
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-the-reluctant-mullah/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190829
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190830
DTSTAMP:20260420T174733
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T072248Z
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SUMMARY:risc book club: celestial bodies
DESCRIPTION:Set in the village of al-Awafi in Oman\, we encounter three sisters: Mayya\, who marries Abdallah after a heartbreak; Asma\, who marries from a sense of duty; and Khawla\, who rejects all offers while waiting for her beloved\, who has emigrated to Canada. These three women and their families witness Oman evolve from a traditional\, slave-owning society slowly redefining itself after the colonial era\, to the crossroads of its complex present. Elegantly structured and taut\, Celestial Bodies is a coiled spring of a novel\, telling of Oman’s coming-of-age through the prism of one family’s losses and loves.
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-celestial-bodies/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20190926
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20190927
DTSTAMP:20260420T174733
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SUMMARY:risc book club: resistance
DESCRIPTION:In the terrifying atmosphere of late 1970s Buenos Aires\, a young militant couple engaged in the resistance against the military regime adopt a child. Matters had reached a nadir; people were informing on friends and family members\, who were then captured by the regime and subjected to horrific torture. Amid this ever-growing oppression\, the couple and their baby flee to Brazil\, believing it to be a more tranquil country in which to raise a family and pursue their lives.
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-resistance/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191031
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191101
DTSTAMP:20260420T174733
CREATED:20241030T072451Z
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SUMMARY:risc book club: we\, the survivors
DESCRIPTION:Ah Hock is an ordinary\, uneducated man born in a Malaysian fishing village and now trying to make his way in a country that promises riches and security to everyone\, but delivers them only to a chosen few. With Asian society changing around him\, like many he remains trapped in a world of poorly paid jobs that just about allow him to keep his head above water but ultimately lead him to murder a migrant worker from Bangladesh. This is a portrait of an outsider like no other\, an anti-nostalgic view of human life and the ravages of hope.
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-we-the-survivors/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191128
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191129
DTSTAMP:20260420T174733
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SUMMARY:risc book club: the death of musrat idrissi
DESCRIPTION:Two venturesome women on a journey through the land of their fathers and mothers. A wrong turn. A bad decision. They had no idea\, when they arrived in Morocco\, that their usual freedoms as young European women would not be available. So\, when the spry Saleh presents himself as their guide and saviour\, they embrace his offer.
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-the-death-of-musrat-idrissi/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20191219
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20191220
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SUMMARY:risc book club: the lime tree
DESCRIPTION:By César Aira – In the town square of Coronel Pringles stands a lime tree from which the author’s father used to brew a sedative tea. This Proustian infusion evokes dark memories of the 1955 anti-Perónist revolution\, which dashed the family’s middle-class dreams. The Lime Tree is a portrait of the artist as a child and a lucid analysis of a family’s social trajectory. 256pp
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-the-lime-tree/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200130
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200131
DTSTAMP:20260420T174733
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SUMMARY:risc book club: paradise
DESCRIPTION:By Toni Morrison – Spanning the birth of the Civil Rights movement\, Vietnam\, the counter-culture and politics of the late 1970s\, deftly manipulating past\, present and future\, this novel reveals the interior lives of the citizens of the town with astonishing clarity. Starkly evoking the clashes that have bedevilled the American century: between race and racelessness; religion and magic; promiscuity and fidelity; individuality and belonging. pp336
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-paradise/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200227
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200228
DTSTAMP:20260420T174733
CREATED:20241030T072836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241030T072836Z
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SUMMARY:risc book club: our women on the ground
DESCRIPTION:By Zahra Hankir – Nineteen Arab women journalists speak out about what it’s like to report on their changing homelands in this first-of-its-kind essay collection\, with a foreword by CNN chief international anchor Christiane Amanpour. 304pp
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-our-women-on-the-ground/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200326
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200327
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SUMMARY:risc book club: stories from the romani world
DESCRIPTION:By Janna Eliot – Spokes is made up of stories from across the Traveller world\, featuring British Gypsies\, settled and still travelling; Irish Travellers\, East European Roma; and people whose Romani background has remained under wraps in the face of a hostile world. There’s an old violinist\, a middle-aged mechanic\, a young radio presenter\, a schoolboy\, a retired banker\, a tealady and a teacher. Sometimes humorous\, sometimes tragic; every story is based on real incidents.
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-stories-from-the-romani-world/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20200430
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20200501
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SUMMARY:risc book club: the sound of things falling
DESCRIPTION:By Juan Gabriel Vásquez – No sooner does he get to know Ricardo Laverde in a seedy billiard hall in Bogotá than Antonio Yammara realises that the ex-pilot has a secret. Antonio’s fascination with his new friend’s life grows until the day Ricardo receives a mysterious\, unmarked cassette. Shortly afterwards\, he is shot dead on a street corner. Yammara’s investigation into what happened leads back to the early 1960s\, marijuana smuggling and a time before the cocaine trade trapped Colombia in a living nightmare.
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-the-sound-of-things-falling/
CATEGORIES:book club
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