Book Club 2022
The Italian Book Club in English is back!
If you dream of Italy and are passionate about its culture, come and join us.
Starting in April, we will read and discuss in English 3 books written by Italian authors.
The Italian Book Club is a ‘taste of Italy’ under all points of view: writers, stories, locations, characters, cultures including, of course, the food: at every meeting you will have the chance to try a traditional recipe inspired by the book.
Cost: $40 for three meetings of one and a half hours or $15 for each individual meeting.
Where: Kohinga - St. Albans Community Centre, 1049 Colombo Street (Edgeware Road end)
Time: 7pm-8.30pm
Facilitator: Roberto Dazzaro
Payment can be made online to the following bank account - 11 7800 0054463 11 or, if you are a casual member, cash payment can be made on the evening.
Copies of the books can be obtained at CCC Libraries.
Just click on the book covers below and you will be redirected to the library links.
If you dream of Italy and are passionate about its culture, come and join us.
Starting in April, we will read and discuss in English 3 books written by Italian authors.
The Italian Book Club is a ‘taste of Italy’ under all points of view: writers, stories, locations, characters, cultures including, of course, the food: at every meeting you will have the chance to try a traditional recipe inspired by the book.
Cost: $40 for three meetings of one and a half hours or $15 for each individual meeting.
Where: Kohinga - St. Albans Community Centre, 1049 Colombo Street (Edgeware Road end)
Time: 7pm-8.30pm
Facilitator: Roberto Dazzaro
Payment can be made online to the following bank account - 11 7800 0054463 11 or, if you are a casual member, cash payment can be made on the evening.
Copies of the books can be obtained at CCC Libraries.
Just click on the book covers below and you will be redirected to the library links.
Wednesday, 27th April
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri The woman moves through the city, her city, on her own. She moves along its bright pavements; she passes over its bridges, through its shops and pools and bars. She slows her pace to watch a couple fighting, to take in the sight of an old woman in a waiting room; pauses to drink her coffee in a shaded square. Sometimes her steps take her to her grieving mother, sealed off in her own solitude. Sometimes they take her to the station, where the trains can spirit her away for a short while. But in the arc of a year, as one season gives way to the next, transformation awaits. One day at the sea, both overwhelmed and replenished by the sun's vital heat, her perspective will change forever. |
Wednesday, 21st September
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio Told with an immediacy and a rare expressive intensity that has earned it countless adoring readers and one of Italy's most prestigious literary prizes, A Girl Returned marks the English-language debut of an extraordinary literary talent. Set against the stark, beautiful landscape of Abruzzo in central Italy, this is a compelling story about mothers and daughters, about responsibility, siblings, and caregiving. Without warning or explanation, an unnamed 13-year-old girl is sent away from the family she has always thought of as hers to live with her birth family: a large, chaotic assortment of individuals whom she has never met and who seem anything but welcoming. Thus begins a new life, one of struggle, tension, and conflict, especially between the young girl and her mother. But in her relationship with Adriana and Vincenzo, two of her newly acquired siblings, she will find the strength to start again and to build a new and enduring sense of self. |
Wednesday, 30th November
The Day Before Happiness by Erri De Luca A young orphan boy grows up in Naples, playing football, roaming the city's streets and hidden places. The older boys call him 'monkey' because he can climb anywhere. He is alone, apart from Don Gaetano, the apartment caretaker, who feeds him, teaches him to play scopa, and tells him stories about women, history and the dark secrets of Naples' past. Then one day the boy sees a young girl standing at a window. It is an encounter that will haunt his life for years and, eventually, shape his destiny. |
Book Club 2021
Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti
The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti
The Night of Rome by Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo
Anna by Niccolò Ammaniti
The Eight Mountains by Paolo Cognetti
The Night of Rome by Carlo Bonini and Giancarlo De Cataldo
Book Club 2019
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
Morning Sea by Margaret Mazzantini
Shadows on the Lake by Giovanni Cocco and Amneris Magella
Numero Zero by Umberto Eco
Morning Sea by Margaret Mazzantini
Shadows on the Lake by Giovanni Cocco and Amneris Magella