2020 – An Overview

Our book club, Readings from the Heart of Europe at The University of Washington managed to sustain our initial plans. Besides, due to technology advantages, we invited several translators and welcomed people from various states and countries to our discussions.  

Here is the overview of our reads for this year:

Olga Tokarczuk's   Primeval and Other Times   

Peter Handke's   A Sorrow Beyond Dreams   

Herta Müller's   The Land of Green Plums

Georgi Gospodinov's The Physics of Sorrow, joined by the book's translator Angela Rodel

Dubravka Ugrešić's  Fox, joined by the book's translator Ellen Elias-Bursać 

Mircea Cărtarescu's  Blinding, Book One, joined by the book's translator Sean Cotter

Lojze Kovačič's  Newcomers, Book One; Book Two, hosted by the book's translator Michael Biggins

Gregor von Rezzori's Memoires of an Anti-Semite

Magdalena Tulli's Dreams and Stones, joined by the book's translator Bill Johnston.

We closed virtually the door of 2020 with "The Door" by Magda Szabó. We are now ready to open the door to 2021 with the list of the reads for the first six months of the new year. Details are coming.

 

Happy New Year, dear colleagues and friends!