February Book Club: Tanzania

Do you like books? Like to talk to other readers about books while sipping on warm beverages? Searching for your next great read? Come join us to read a book from one of the 54 countries in Africa each month.

We meet on the last Sunday of the month to read one member-selected book to discuss.

Meetings are like this:
Check-in by regular attendees and introduction of new attendees.
Information about the author.
Brief review of the book.
Questions and observations.
Interesting/inspiring quotes.
Final thoughts and ratings.

See past events to catch up on the previous 28 books we read.

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For book #29 we're reading Paradise by Abdulrazak Gurnah.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature Protected content .
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize Protected content the Whitbread Award.

Born in East Africa, Yusuf has few qualms about the journey he is to make. It never occurs to him to ask why he is accompanying Uncle Aziz or why the trip has been organised so suddenly, and he does not think to ask when he will be returning. But the truth is that his ‘uncle' is a rich and powerful merchant and Yusuf has been pawned to him to pay his father's debts.

Paradise is a rich tapestry of myth, dreams and Biblical and Koranic tradition, the story of a young boy's coming of age against the backdrop of an Africa increasingly corrupted by colonialism and violence.

Happy reading and see you then.