Stories From The South: A Public Book Club
- Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2024, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
- Location: Dymocks Adelaide, Regent Theatre, Level 1 Shop 45,101-107 Rundle Mall Adelaide, SA 5000
- Cost: Free
- More information:
- Email: storiesfromthesouth.adelaide@gmail.com
Booklovers are invited to join a new in-person discussion book club featuring a series of brilliant literary works that have emerged from what Adelaide鈥檚 resident Nobel Prize winner, J.M. Coetzee, describes as the 鈥渦nique world鈥 of the South. 听Each session will feature guest speakers who will facilitate group discussions as we read and respond to works by Nobel Prize-winners Coetzee and Abdulrazak Gurnah, First Nations Australian writers Kim Scott and Alexis Wright, M膩ori author Patricia Grace and the Marshall Islands climate activist and poet Kathy Jet苍虅il-Kijiner.
This free book club is hosted jointly by Dymocks, InDaily and writers and thinkers from the 成人大片. Participants will have the opportunity to enhance their engagement through Reading Guides in InReview and will also be able to add to discussions via the Stories from the South听.
Stories from the South Book Club will meet at Dymocks Bookstore Rundle Mall on the last Tuesday of each month from 6.30-7.30pm from September 2023 to April 2024, with a break over December and January. Places are limited, so make sure to register as soon as possible.
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This month we read By the Sea (2001), the sixth novel by 2021 Nobel Laureate for Literature, Abdulrazak Gurnah. By the Sea traces the entwined lives of Saleh Omar, a refugee from Zanzibar seeking political asylum in Britain, and Latif Mahmud, another Tanzanian exile. Both are living under assumed identities, and their eventual encounter re-awakens traumatic memories of the past. The novel is a lyrical exploration of the nature of memory and the fragmented identities of those exiled from home. Discussion at our in-person meeting will be facilitated by scholars Kai Easton, David Osu Ishaya and Morgan Nunan.
WHEN:听Tuesday 30 April 2024,听6:00pm - 7:30pm
WHERE: Dymocks Adelaide (Regent Theatre, Rundle Mall)听
26 Sep, 2023 | Boyhood,听JM Coetzee |
31 Oct, 2023 | Taboo,听Kim Scott |
28 Nov, 2023 | 笔艒迟颈办颈, Patricia Grace |
27 Feb, 2024 | Praiseworthy,听Alexis Wright |
26 Mar, 2024 | Iep J膩ltok,听Kathy Jet苍虅il-Kijiner |
30 Apr, 2024 | By the Sea,听Abdulrazak Gurnah |
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