Book club: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann

We’re opening the year with a classic masterpiece: The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann 🫁🫀

Welcome to the Berghof, a remote luxury medical center in the Swiss Alps where tuberculosis patients hope to be cured by the fresh air.

Hans Castorp only wants to stay for three weeks, but it ends up being seven years. The strange thing is that Hans Castorp himself is actually healthy. But he is literally absorbed by the sanatorium life. The patients, their philosophical debates and their customs, the strict health routines, luxurious meals and compulsive temperature checks: He becomes part of this world.

'Magnificent... a beautiful, feverish account of obsessive love' \Jonathan Coe, Guardian

'The greatest German novelist of the 20th century' Spectator

Join us on January 26 for a cozy evening , as we discuss this tubercular, wintery novel ⛷️🐧

Be sure to read the book beforehand—so we can jump straight into the discussion!