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Join the informal group of English book readers in Uitikon
on
the second Thursday of the month at 20.00h to discuss all sorts
of books: bestsellers, biographies, classics, thrillers etc.. The group is
run, and the books proposed by Caroline Hürlimann, a native
English-speaker and qualified TEFL teacher and enthusiastic reader.
The books are sold by the library and
each session costs CHF 10.00 to cover overheads. You are not obliged
to register or to come to each session or even to have fully read
the book, we will simply be delighted to welcome you to an
interesting evening.
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7th June |
Nemesis by
Philip Roth
Summer,
1944. In the 'stifling heat of equatorial Newark', a terrifying
epidemic
is raging, threatening the children of the New Jersey city with
maiming,
paralysis, life-long disability, even death. Vigorous, decent,
twenty-three year old playground director Bucky Cantor is devoted to his
charges and disappointed with himself because his weak eyes have
excluded him from
serving
in the war. As polio begins to ravage Bucky's playground, Roth leads
us
through every inch of emotion such a pestilence can breed: the fear, the
panic,
the anger, the bewilderment, the suffering and the pain.
Through
this story runs the dark question that haunts all four of Roth's late
short
novels, Everyman, Indignation, The Humbling, and
now, Nemesis: what choices fatally shape a life? How powerless is
each of us up against the
force of
circumstances?
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12th July |
Before I Go To Sleep
by S.J.Watson
"As I sleep, my mind will erase everything
I did today. I will wake up tomorrow
as I did this morning. Thinking I’m still
a child. Thinking I have a whole lifetime
of choice ahead of me." Memories define
us. So what if you lost yours every
time you went to sleep? Your name, your
identity, your past, even the people you love—all forgotten overnight.
And the one person you trust may be telling you only half the story.
Welcome to Christine's life. An original, haunting
debut thriller by a new British author.
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6th
September |
Great Expectations by Charles
Dickens
Considered by many to be Dickens' finest novel, Great Expectations
traces the growth of the book's narrator, Philip Pirrip (Pip), from a
boy of shallow dreams
to a man
with depth of character. From its famous dramatic opening on the
bleak
Kentish marshes, the story abounds with some of Dickens' most
memorable
characters. Among them are the kindly blacksmith Joe Gargery, the
mysterious convict Abel Magwitch, the eccentric Miss Haversham and her
beautiful ward Estella, Pip's good-hearted room-mate Herbert Pocket and
the pompous Pumblechook. As Pip unravels the truth behind his own 'great
expectations' in his quest to become a gentleman, the mysteries of the
past
and the
convolutions of fate through a series of thrilling adventures serve to
steer him towards maturity and his most important discovery of all - the
truth about himself.
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Next meetings 2012 |
4th October
8th November
6th December |
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