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Meeting to discuss one book each month. Titles will be mainly literary fiction, including classics, modern works, and works in translation.
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What I Know About You by Éric Chacour
Purpose Brewing and Cellars, 4026 S. Mason St. Unit C, Fort Collins, CO, USThis book is on this year's shortlist for the Dublin Literary Award.
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-20th-century Cairo.
In a tight-knit Levantine Christian family in 1960s Cairo, Tarek's entire life is written in advance. He'll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eye of the family's strong women, he starts to do just that - until a patient's son, Ali, enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men's unsayable relationship sparks a series of events as dramatic as the Six-Day War and assassination of President Anwar Sadat playing out in the background.
The turn of the millennium finds Tarek living as a doctor in Montreal. Someone is writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will Tarek figure it out in time?
2023
Translated from French by Pablo Strauss
224 pages
** Old Firehouse Books should have copies on order. Look for it on the book club shelf soon. **4 attendees
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