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- Wed Oct 29, 2008 1:44 pm
- Forum: Clare Library Online Bookclub
- Topic: “Suite Française” by Irène Némirovsky - book for Nov. 2008
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“Suite Française” by Irène Némirovsky - book for Nov. 2008
This stunning novel of life under Nazi occupation was discovered by the daughter of the author and published many years after Irene Némirovsky's tragic death at Auschwitz. The book contains two narratives, one fictional and the other a factual account of the author’s life and how “Suite Française” c...
- Mon Sep 29, 2008 10:21 am
- Forum: Clare Library Online Bookclub
- Topic: "The Welsh Girl" by Peter Ho Davies - book for October 2008
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"The Welsh Girl" by Peter Ho Davies - book for October 2008
“The Welsh Girl” is set in 1944, as the Second World War is coming to an end. The main characters are Rotheram, Esther and Karsten. Rotheram is a German Jewish refugee who now works as a translator for Political Intelligence. Esther is the seventeen-year-old daughter of a fiercely nationalistic Wels...
- Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:38 pm
- Forum: Clare Library Online Bookclub
- Topic: “Everyman” by Philip Roth - book for September 2008
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“Everyman” by Philip Roth - book for September 2008
The main character, “Everyman”, is a 71-year-old divorced, successful advertising man who is confronting mortality without the crutch of religion or philosophy. He is already dead and nearly buried when we meet him. His few surviving advertising colleagues are around his grave in a Jewish cemetery. ...
- Wed Jul 30, 2008 11:43 am
- Forum: Clare Library Online Bookclub
- Topic: "Mister Pip" by Lloyd Jones - book for August 2008
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"Mister Pip" by Lloyd Jones - book for August 2008
“Mister Pip” is set in the 1990s during the blockade and civil war in Bougainville in Papua New Guinea. It is narrated by a young girl named Matilda whose father fled the island some years earlier. All the white people have also left, except for the eccentric Mr. Watts, who stays behind and teaches ...
- Mon May 26, 2008 10:43 am
- Forum: Clare Library Online Bookclub
- Topic: "Christine Falls" by Benjamin Black - book for June 2008
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"Christine Falls" by Benjamin Black - book for June 2008
“Christine Falls” is a crime-fiction book involving family secrets and missed opportunities. The author is Man Booker Prize-winner John Banville, writing under the pen name Benjamin Black. Set in the 1950s, it involves the Crawford family in America and the Griffin family in Ireland, two American si...