Book Club 2023
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 May, 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: $45 for three meetings of one and a half hours or $17 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.
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 May, 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: $45 for three meetings of one and a half hours or $17 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.
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.
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Wednesday, 31 May
Trust by Domenico Starnone Pietro and Teresa’s love affair is tempestuous and passionate. After yet another terrible argument, she gets an idea: they should tell each other something they’ve never told another person, something they’re too ashamed to tell anyone. In this way, Teresa thinks, they will remain intimately connected forever. A few days after sharing their shameful secrets, they break up. Not long after, Pietro meets Nadia, falls in love, and proposes. But the shadow of the secret he confessed to Teresa haunts him, and Teresa herself periodically reappears, standing at the crossroads of every major moment in his life. Or is it he who seeks her out? Trust asks how much we are willing to bend to show the world our best side, knowing full well that when we are at our most vulnerable we are also at our most dangerous. |
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Wednesday, 30 August
Family Lexicon by Natalia Ginzburg (also published as Family Sayings) Natalia Ginzburg wrote her masterful, Strega Prize winning novel Family Lexicon while living in London in the 1960s. Homesick for her big, noisy Italian family, she summoned them in this novel, which is a celebration of the routines and rituals, in-jokes and insults and, above all, the repeated sayings that make up every family. The father, Giuseppe Levi, is a Jewish scientist, consumed by his work and a mania for hiking. Impatient and intractable, he is constantly at odds with his impressionable and wistful wife Lidia yet he cannot be without her. Together they preside over their five children in a house filled with argument and activity, books and politics, visitors, friends and famous faces. But as their children grow up against the backdrop of Mussolini's Italy, the Levi household must become not only a home but a stronghold against fascism. Intimate, enchanting and comedic, Family Lexicon is an unforgettable novel about memory, language, and the lasting power that family holds over all of us. |
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Wednesday, 29 November
Troubling Love by Elena Ferrante Following her mother’s untimely and mysterious death, Delia embarks on a voyage of discovery through the streets of her native Naples searching for the truth about her family. Reality is buried somewhere in the fertile soil of memory, and Delia is determined to find it. This stylish fiction is set in a beguiling but often hostile Naples, whose chaotic, suffocating streets become one of the book’s central motifs. A story about mothers and daughters, and the complicated knot of lies and emotions that binds them. |
Book Club 2022
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
The Day Before Happiness by Erri De Luca
Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri
A Girl Returned by Donatella Di Pietrantonio
The Day Before Happiness by Erri De Luca
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