Thank you again for all the wonderful suggestions. Here are our books for next year! As always, feel free to read the book in any language you prefer, the discussions are in English.
September: Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
October: Francoise Gilot, Life with Picasso*
November: Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
December: Jhumpa Lahiri, Roman Stories (original language is Italian: Racconti Romani)
January: Sandor Marai, Embers
February: Anita Brookner, Hotel du Lac
March: Victoria Smith, Hags
April: Yael van der Wouden, The Safekeep
May: Mary Costello, Barcelona**
June: Bring a poem
We hope there is something there for everybody! Happy holiday reading!
Betina and Catherine
*For some reason, this seems to be tricky to search for online and Amazon keeps on suggesting the wrong book. Here is a link to the correct book for your information.
**We will focus mostly on The Choc-Ice Woman as this is freely available on line.
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Thank you for posting the list!
As for “My life with Picasso” I think Amazon is having problemwith books in general because it did the same with me with other titles, in any case it seems to be available:
https://www.amazon.it/gp/product/1853812331/ref=ox_sc_saved_title_6?smid=A11IL2PNWYJU7H&psc=1
Thanks Silvia!