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SUMMARY:risc book club: codename butterfly
DESCRIPTION:By Ahlam Bsharat (tr Nancy Roberts) – Palestine.\nA young adult book. With irony and poignant teenage idealism\, Butterfly draws us into her world of adult hypocrisy\, sibling rivalries\, girlfriends’ power plays\, unrequited love…not to mention the political tension of life under occupation. As she observes her fragile environment with all its conflicts\, Butterfly is compelled to question everything around her. Is her father a collaborator for the occupiers? Will Nizar ever give her the sign she’s waiting for? How will her friendship with the activist Mays and the airhead Haya survive the unpredictable storms ahead? And why is ‘honour’ such a dangerous word\, anyway?
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-codename-butterfly/
CATEGORIES:book club
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SUMMARY:risc book club: the ministry of utmost happiness
DESCRIPTION:By Arundhati Roy – India.\nIn a graveyard outside the walls of Old Delhi\, a resident unrolls a threadbare Persian carpet. On a concrete sidewalk\, a baby suddenly appears\, just after midnight. In a snowy valley\, a bereaved father writes a letter to his five-year-old daughter about the people who came to her funeral. In a second-floor apartment\, a lone woman chain-smokes as she reads through her old notebooks. At the Jannat Guest House\, two people who have known each other all their lives sleep with their arms wrapped around each other\, as though they have just met. A braided narrative of astonishing force and originality\, The Ministry of Utmost Happiness is at once a love story and a provocation-a novel as inventive as it is emotionally engaging. It is told with a whisper\, in a shout\, through joyous tears and sometimes with a bitter laugh. Its heroes\, both present and departed\, have been broken by the world we live in-and then mended by love. For this reason\, they will never surrender.
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-the-ministry-of-utmost-happiness/
CATEGORIES:book club
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SUMMARY:risc book club: the investigator
DESCRIPTION:By Margarita Khemlin (tr Melanie Moore) – Ukraine\nSet in the Ukrainian SSR\, The Investigator is rooted in a specific time and place. Lilia Vorobeichik’s death is given as 18 May 1952\, barely 10 months before the death of Stalin\, whose rule brought untold suffering to the region. The forced collectivization of the late 1920s and ensuing Holodomor\, a man-made famine that claimed the lives of up to seven million Ukrainians\, was swiftly followed by the brutal Nazi occupation. One of The Investigator’s most arresting features is the powerful vignettes Khemlin weaves out of the community’s recent past\, often dropped almost casually into conversation. One woman witnessed the Nazis burning children alive; another remembers that during the famine people were “raking the last seeds of grain from under little children’s pillows on an order from above.” Still another speaks scornfully about the upsurge in weddings that followed the famine: people were “drinking too much out of sheer joy at being alive. \nNote: Melanie Moore is a ‘distance member’ of our group. We’ve been waiting for this for ages
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-the-investigator/
CATEGORIES:book club
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SUMMARY:risc book club: the gurugu pledge
DESCRIPTION:By Juan Tomas Avila Laurel – Melilla\nOn Mount Gurugu\, overlooking the Spanish enclave of Melilla on the North African coast\, desperate migrants gather before attempting to scale the city’s walls and gain asylum on European soil. Inspired by first-hand accounts\, Juan Tomás Ávila Laurel has written an urgent novel\, by turns funny and sad\, bringing a distinctly African perspective to a major issue of our time.
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-the-gurugu-pledge/
CATEGORIES:book club
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