October 19, 2006
New International Book Club to Meet
Chicken with Plums, the new book by Iranian cartoonist Marjane Satrapi, will be the topic of conversation at the new International Book Club, which will have its first meeting at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 24, in 302B Husky Union Building.
It’s the tragicomic story of Satrapi’s great-uncle, a renowned musician who died when his musical instrument was broken. But his death in the book takes eight days, and each day has another tale.
The book club, designed to focus on a different country and new book each month, is a joint venture of University Book Store and the campus branch of FIUTS, the Foundation for International Understanding through Students. The club is free. All are welcome.
Marjane Satrapi was a featured author this year in Seattle, where her cartoon-style memoir, Persepolis, was the Seattle Public Library’s 2006 book all Seattle should read.
The meetings will be hosted by Nick DiMartino, whose Nick’s Picks are a monthly feature at University Book Store, where Chicken with Plums is discounted 20 percent for $10.36.
Among the exciting new novels from around the world being considered for the International Book Club are Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow by Faiza Guene, about a teenage Moroccan girl growing up in the projects outside Paris, and In the Country of Men by Hisham Matar, about a nine-year-old boy caught up in the violence of Libya, currently short-listed for the Booker Prize.
