Event Venue
Brasserie Le National, Route de Sion 1, 3960 Sierre
GPS: 46.2915865, 7.5280689
On the 21st August, we decided on the first 4 books for our reading group.
We will be discussing the following books on the following dates:
BOOK TITLE AUTHOR To be discussed
The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin 25th September 2019
Little Fires Everywhere Celeste Ng 16th October 2019
A Keeper Graham Norton 20th November 2019
The Bookseller of Kabul Asne Seierstad 18th December 2019
Please feel free to share with anyone interested in a monthly English book discussion.
In November’s meeting we will also be discussing which books we’ll be reading in January, February and March.
Cost: Pay for what you consume
CHF: 10.- pp (Tapas for those who want) or choose something from the restaurant’s regular menu.
Reservations to:
Sonja at sonjavig@yahoo.com or Mobile: 078 900 86 91
We invite you to read The Immortalists by Chloe Benjamin in any language, then join us on 25th September for a lively discussion in English.
Below a short description to get you interested 🙂
If you knew the date of your death, how would you live your life?
It’s 1969 in New York City’s Lower East Side, and word has spread of the arrival of a mystical woman, a traveling psychic who claims to be able to tell anyone the day they will die. The Gold children—four adolescents on the cusp of self-awareness—sneak out to hear their fortunes.
The prophecies inform their next five decades. Golden-boy Simon escapes to the West Coast, searching for love in ’80s San Francisco; dreamy Klara becomes a Las Vegas magician, obsessed with blurring reality and fantasy; eldest son Daniel seeks security as an army doctor post-9/11; and bookish Varya throws herself into longevity research, where she tests the boundary between science and immortality.
A sweeping novel of remarkable ambition and depth, The Immortalists probes the line between destiny and choice, reality and illusion, this world and the next. It is a deeply moving testament to the power of story, the nature of belief, and the unrelenting pull of familial bonds.
The e-book is available on Ex-Libris for 1.15 chf!