General yelena on 19 Jun 2008
Le Salon du Livre
For the next session of the French book discussion group, Le Salon du Livre, on Thursday, June 26 at 7 p.m., we will read Le Soleil des Scorta by Laurent Gaudé, a novel which won the prestigious Prix Goncourt in 2004.
In an original, vivacious tone and with precise vocabulary, Laurent Gaudé recounts the story of a family of Southern Italy over three generations. With it, he also recounts the story of the South, with its miseries, its richness and its mores. Under a scorching sun, the characters live out their passions in an exaggerated manner. Their sensuality and the violence of their passions is equal to their interior suffering. Not without its moments of redemption and happiness, the novel has great insight into the depths of human feeling.
We will continue the discussion group over the summer, with our next meeting Thursday, July 31 at 7 p.m. For this session we will read an autobiography of a celebrated French pianist, Hélène Grimaud. Variations Sauvages is the story of her journey from a music student in Paris to her life as the founder of a wolf conservation center in upstate New York. All sessions will meet in the Stamford Room of the Main Library (on the second floor) during renovations.
If you like to borrow DVD’s or talking books - you do not have to come upstairs to the third floor anymore. Recently our large collection of DVD’s was relocated to the ground floor next to the fiction and literature book collection. The small part of VHS (videocassettes) still remains on the third floor.
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