“Pilgrim” by Timothy Findley (Canada) Book Club Favourite of Season 3 Synopsis and Review “Pilgrim”: a journey well worth taking Pilgrim is a man who cannot die. On 17 April 1912, he fails, once again, to commit suicide, his heart miraculously beginning again, hours after he is found hanging from a tree. Admitted to the Burgholzi Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, Pilgrim begins a battle of … Continue reading Pilgrim
“The News From Paraguay” by Lily Tuck (U.S.) Synopsis and Review “The News from Paraguay”: Not That Good Set in the mid 19th century at the time of the war of the Triple Alliance that pitted Paraguay against its neighbours, Brazil, Argentina and Uruguay, “The News From Paraguay” recounts the love affair between Ella Lynch, Irish courtesan, and Francisco Solano Lopez, future dictator of Paraguay. … Continue reading The News From Paraguay
“Oracle Night” by Paul Auster (U.S.) This was the first book we read for Nicola’s Book Club on 3rd March 2005! Synopsis Several months into his recovery from a near-fatal illness, novelist Sidney Orr enters a stationery shop in Brooklyn and buys a blue notebook. It is September 18, 1982, and for the next nine days Orr will live under the spell of this blank … Continue reading Oracle Night
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