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SUMMARY:Omar El Akkad
DESCRIPTION:reading from his new novel \nWhat Strange Paradise \npublished by Alfred Knopf \nFrom the widely acclaimed\, best-selling author of American War: a new novel—beautifully written\, unrelentingly dramatic\, and profoundly moving—that looks at the global refugee crisis through the eyes of a child. \n———- \n\nThis is a virtual event that will be hosted by City Lights on the Zoom platform. You will need access to a computer or other device that is capable of accessing the internet. If you have not used Zoom before\, you may consider referencing Getting Started with Zoom. \n———- \nEvent is free\, but registration is required \n———- \n(CLICK HERE) to register. \n———– \n(CLICK HERE) to purchase book. \n———– \nMore bodies have washed up on the shores of a small island. Another overfilled\, ill-equipped\, dilapidated ship has sunk under the weight of its too many passengers: Syrians\, Ethiopians\, Egyptians\, Lebanese\, Palestinians\, all of them desperate to escape untenable lives back in their homelands. But miraculously\, someone has survived the passage: nine-year-old Amir\, a Syrian boy who is soon rescued by Vänna. Vänna is a teenage girl\, who\, despite being native to the island\, experiences her own sense of homelessness in a place and among people she has come to disdain. And though Vänna and Amir are complete strangers\, though they don’t speak a common language\, Vänna is determined to do whatever it takes to save the boy. \nIn alternating chapters\, we learn about Amir’s life and how he came to be on the boat\, and we follow him and the girl as they make their way toward safety. What Strange Paradise is the story of two children finding their way through a hostile world. But it is also a story of empathy and indifference\, of hope and despair—and about the way each of those things can blind us to reality. \nOmar El Akkad is an author and a journalist. He has reported from Afghanistan\, Guantánamo Bay\, and many other locations around the world. His work earned Canada’s National Newspaper Award for Investigative Journalism and the Goff Penny Award for young journalists. His writing has appeared in The Guardian\, Le Monde\, Guernica\, GQ\, and many other newspapers and magazines. His debut novel\, American War\, is an international bestseller and has been translated into thirteen languages. It won the Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Award\, the Oregon Book Award for fiction\, and the Kobo Emerging Writer Prize\, and has been nominated for more than ten other awards. It was listed as one of the best books of the year by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, GQ\, NPR\, and Esquire\, and was selected by the BBC as one of 100 Novels That Shaped Our World. \nPraise for What Strange Paradise \n\n\n“What Strange Paradise by Omar El Akkad just resuscitated my heart. This novel—following a boy who survives a refugee passage\, and a girl whose homeland feels fractured—dares to unite us on the shore of shared human experience\, and redefines hope in the face of despair. I want to read this book every single day. I want to live in a world where the beauty of strangers is a heartsong.”\n—Lidia Yuknavitch\, author of Verge  \n“It is one thing to put a human face on a migrant crisis and another to do so in so compelling a way that a reader simply cannot put your book down. I read this in one sitting\, my heart pounding the whole way—in a strange paradise\, you might say. Marvelous.”\n—Gish Jen\, author of The Resisters \n“What an imaginative\, touching\, and necessary novel Omar El Akkad has brought to us. It reminds us of the human stories behind headlines and statistics\, and gives us one of the most memorable children characters\, whose story adds urgency and poignancy to that ‘awfully big adventure’ stated by Peter Pan.”\n—Yiyun Li\, author of Must I Go \n\nSponsored by the City Lights Foundation
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SUMMARY:KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro | GGP Online Book Club
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Tuesday\, July 27\, 2021 at 7 PM PDT for a GGP Online Book Club discussion of KLARA AND THE SUN by Kazuo Ishiguro. \nThe Zoom meeting will be at https://us02web.zoom.us/j/85239569569\, and on Facebook Live at https://www.facebook.com/ggpbooks/live/. \nYou can order a print copy at http://bit.ly/KlaraSunHC\, or in audiobook from Libro.fm\, GGP’s audiobook partner\, at http://bit.ly/KlaraSunAB. \nDescription\n\nNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER\nA GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! \nA magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. \nKlara and the Sun\, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature\, tells the story of Klara\, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities\, who\, from her place in the store\, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse\, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. \nKlara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator\, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? \nIn its award citation in 2017\, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro’s books as “novels of great emotional force” and said he has “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”
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