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Join us for lively book discussion in Central Tokyo.
Fiction and non-fiction books and great chat with a friendly crowd!
We usually meet in a pub in Ebisu but occasionally we meet in Osaki.
We will have read the book, or at least most of it, before we come along and most people contribute their opinions and thoughts on the book.
We have a list of questions to act as a prompt if we run out of topics.... but this is rare as we all generally have lots to say.
If the group is large, we split in to smaller groups and we discuss the book and related topics as they come up.
The pub kindly lets us book without taking a course menu or asking for a booking fee, but we do need to order drinks and there is a food menu available.
We hope you enjoy being a member.
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Tokyo Ebisu Book Club - Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo
The FooTNiK EBISU, 1-11-2 Ebisu, Shibuya-Ku, Asahi Bldg 1F, Tokyo, JPRead the book (or most of It)
Order a drink/food at the counter
Enjoy discussing with your fellow book-lovers!
We split into groups for the discussion.
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March’s book is: Behind the Beautiful Forevers: Life, death, and hope in a Mumbai undercity by Katherine Boo**
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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • NATIONAL BOOK AWARD WINNER • ONE OF TIME’S TEN BEST NONFICTION BOOKS OF THE DECADE • ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY • A KIRKUS REVIEWS BEST NONFICTION BOOK OF THE CENTURY
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In this breathtaking book by Pulitzer Prize winner Katherine Boo, a bewildering age of global change and inequality is made human through the dramatic story of families striving toward a better life in Annawadi, a makeshift settlement in the shadow of luxury hotels near the Mumbai airport.
As India starts to prosper, the residents of Annawadi are electric with hope. Abdul, an enterprising teenager, sees “a fortune beyond counting” in the recyclable garbage that richer people throw away. Meanwhile Asha, a woman of formidable ambition, has identified a shadier route to the middle class. With a little luck, her beautiful daughter, Annawadi’s “most-everything girl,” might become its first female college graduate. And even the poorest children, like the young thief Kalu, feel themselves inching closer to their dreams. But then Abdul is falsely accused in a shocking tragedy; terror and global recession rock the city; and suppressed tensions over religion, caste, sex, power, and economic envy turn brutal.
With intelligence, humor, and deep insight into what connects people to one another in an era of tumultuous change, Behind the Beautiful Forevers, based on years of uncompromising reporting, carries the reader headlong into one of the twenty-first century’s hidden worlds—and into the hearts of families impossible to forget.
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Directions can be found at bottom of www.footnik.com6 人の参加者
Tokyo Ebisu Book Club - Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
The FooTNiK EBISU, 1-11-2 Ebisu, Shibuya-Ku, Asahi Bldg 1F, Tokyo, JPRead the book (or most of It)
Order a drink/food at the counter
Enjoy discussing with your fellow book-lovers!
We split into groups for the discussion.
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April’s book is: Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
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"Rebecca" is a classic Gothic novel by Daphne du Maurier that explores themes of love, jealousy, and the haunting nature of the past. The story is narrated by an unnamed young woman who marries the wealthy widower Maxim de Winter. As she moves to his grand estate, Manderley, she becomes increasingly obsessed with the memory of Rebecca, Maxim's first wife. The novel masterfully builds suspense and atmosphere, immersing readers in the psychological turmoil of the protagonist as she grapples with her insecurities and the shadow of Rebecca's legacy.
First published in 1938, never out of print and with one of the most famous opening lines in literature: "Last night, I dreamt I went to Manderley again."
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Directions can be found at bottom of www.footnik.com12 人の参加者
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