Friday, October 29, 2021

White Shroud by Antanas Škėma with our special guest Prof Violeta Kelertas - November 7




Widely acclaimed as Lithuania's great modernist novel, White Shroud by Antanas Škėma will be our book for discussion on Sunday, November 7, at 5:00pm Pacific time over Zoom, with our special guest Prof Violeta Kelertas (U. of Illinois-Chicago), one of America's leading experts on Lithuanian literature. 

Register for a Zoom link here: https://us02web.zoom.us/.../tZ0lcuyuqjosG9we4Dv5h8xxJK9H7...

E-book and print editions are available at Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/White-Shroud.../dp/B0817D7J3X

or direct from the publisher, Vagabond Voices in Scotland: 
https://www.vagabondvoices.co.uk/ebooks/white-shroud-ebook?rq=white%20shroud 

 

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Designed by Otilia Baraboi

Thursday, October 21, 2021



November-December 2021 Schedule and More...



 

 

Friends,

 

We're back!  After the long summer and early fall break, plan to join us for our first meeting of the 2021-22 season on Sunday, November 7, at 5:00pm Pacific time for a discussion of our first featured book from the Baltic countries, Lithuanian author Antanas Škėma's novel White Shroud.  

https://www.asymptotejournal.com/blog/2018/04/12/in-review-white-shroud-by-antanas-skema/

 

Our December 12th meeting at 12:00 noon Pacific time will be given over to the English-language début discussion of Slovenian author Breda Smolnikar's 1998 novelette, When the Birches Leaf Out Up There.  Readers who register for our December meeting will be able to pick up a free copy of its recently produced English translation at the University of Washington's Suzzallo Library (exact location to be announced).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Breda_Smolnikar

 

 

In January (date TBA) we'll resume our first brief march through the literatures of the Baltic countries Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia with Estonian author  Andrus Kivirähk's The Man Who Spoke Snakish.

https://groveatlantic.com/book/the-man-who-spoke-snakish/

 

 

And in February (date also TBA) plan to join us to explore Latvian author Nora Ikstēna's novel Soviet Milk, praised in The Guardian.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/aug/31/soviet-milk-by-nora-ikstena-review

 

Look for the link issued on Facebook to register for November 7 discussion of Škėma's White Shroud soon.

 

Michael Biggins

Otilia Baraboi

Zorica Miroslava Wacker

Daniela Nyberg


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