This spring continues literary globetrotting with consummate reader Jim LaVilla-Havelin. Stop at a different country every month and gather for a lively conversation on an unforgettable array of world novels, from a Nobel Prize novelist’s allegorical exploration of global disaster to illuminating stories of Haitian life to a hip tour de force set in the Philippines.
Jan 17, Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie / India
Feb 21, Krik Krak by Edwidge Danticat/ Haiti
Mar 21, Dogeaters by Jessica Hagedorn/ Philippines
Apr 18, Blindness by Jose Saramago / Portugal
May 16, Wild Sheep Chase by Haruki Murakami / Japan