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SUMMARY:risc book club: The Hundred Wells of Salaga
DESCRIPTION:By Ayesha Haruna Attah – Ghana. Aminah lives an idyllic life until she is brutally separated from her home and forced on a journey that turns her from a daydreamer into a resilient woman. Wurche\, the willful daughter of a chief\, is desperate to play an important role in her father’s court. These two women’s lives converge as infighting among Wurche’s people threatens the region\, during the height of the slave trade at the end of the 19th century. Set in pre-colonial Ghana\, The Hundred Wells of Salaga is a story of courage\, forgiveness\, love and freedom. Through the experiences of Aminah and Wurche\, it offers a remarkable view of slavery and how the scramble for Africa affected the lives of everyday people. 234pp
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-the-hundred-wells-of-salaga/
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SUMMARY:risc book club: The Museum of Innocence
DESCRIPTION:By Orhan Pamuk – Turkey. The Museum of Innocence – set in Istanbul between 1975 and today – tells the story of Kemal\, the son of one of Istanbul’s richest families\, and of his obsessive love for a poor and distant relation\, the beautiful Fusun\, who is a shop-girl in a small boutique. In his romantic pursuit of Füsun over the next eight years\, Kemal compulsively amasses a collection of objects that chronicles his lovelorn progress-a museum that is both a map of a society and of his heart. The novel depicts a panoramic view of life in Istanbul as it chronicles this long\, obsessive love affair; and Pamuk beautifully captures the identity crisis experienced by Istanbul’s upper classes that find themselves caught between traditional and westernised ways of being. 752pp
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-the-museum-of-innocence/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180927
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180928
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SUMMARY:risc book club: Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People about Race
DESCRIPTION:By Reni Eddo-Lodge – UK.\nWriting on black life in Britain has long been the poor relation of its African American equivalent\, not least because\, in the hierarchy of suffering\, the daily slights endured by black Britons do not bear comparison to the existential threat to African American lives. She’s strong on the pervasive racial marginalisation of black people\, for example in the depiction of the working class that still so often comes with the prefix “white”. It’s striking that the discourse on race today is stronger in tone than in the 70s suburban world in which I grew up\, where British people were (usually) polite to the point of rudeness; the stakes are higher now. 288pp
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-why-im-no-longer-talking-to-white-people-about-race/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180830
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180831
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SUMMARY:risc book club: flights
DESCRIPTION:By Olga Tokarczuk – Poland.\nFlights interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body\, broaching life\, death\, motion\, and migration. From the seventeenth century\, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen\, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century\, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century\, we follow Chopin’s heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands\, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. 432pp
URL:https://risc.org.uk/events/risc-book-club-flights/
CATEGORIES:book club
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20180726
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180727
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180629
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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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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20180427
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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/
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