Reading Around the World with Archipelago Books and Morley Musick at the Center for Fiction
Meeting Dates:
1/28, 2/18, 3/11
Online via Zoom
The Center for Fiction’s “Reading Around the World” discussion group has partnered with Archipelago to offer participants a chance to read three of our titles with writer and editor Morley Musick. The group will guide adventurous readers through work by three novelists, working across three different times and three different places:
- Gate of the Sun by the late, great Lebanese novelist Elias Khoury. This book has been called “the first magnum opus of the Palestinian saga.”
- Canoes by acclaimed contemporary French novelist Maylis de Kerangal. This collection includes a series of riveting tales on “tones, molds of human jaws, voicemail recordings, sonic waves, UFOs” spun off from a central novella.
- Eline Vere, a Madame Bovary in the Hague, by Louis Couperus, the “greatest Dutch novelist of his generation.”
This discussion group welcomes readers itching to transcend their current time and place, seekers of beauty and singular voice, and, of course, Archipelago fans.
What to read before the first meeting: Please read Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury in its entirety.
What to expect from this reading group: This is a conversational, participant-driven course featuring an introduction to the text from the facilitator.
Book List:
- Gate of the Sun by Elias Khoury
- Canoes by Maylis de Kerangal
- Eline Vere by Louis Couperus
Capacity: 20