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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/
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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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