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Apr.23
April 22nd - 2pm
"The Vagrants"
by Yiyun Li
In the provincial town of Muddy Waters in China, a young woman named Gu Shan is sentenced to death for her loss of faith in Communism. She is twenty-eight years old and has already spent ten years in prison.
The citizens stage a protest after her death and, over the following six weeks, the town goes through uncertainty, hope and fear until eventually the rebellion is brutally suppressed. They are all taken on a painful journey, from one young woman's death to another. We follow the pain of Gu Shan's parents, the hope and fear of the leaders of the protest and their families.
Even those who seem unconnected to the tragedy - an eleven-year-old boy seeking fame and glory, a nineteen-year-old village idiot in love with a young and deformed girl, an old couple making a living by scavenging the town's garbage cans - are caught up in a remorseless turn of events. Yiyun Li's novel is based on the true story which took place in China in 1979.
The official ranking of the books we previously read :
2019-2020
Transatlantic - Colum McCann 6.28/10
The Wych Elm - Tana French 5.97/10 The Borrowed - Chan Ho-Kei
Educated - Tara Westover 8.53/10
Unsheltered - Barbara Kingsolver
The Power - Naomi Alderman
War & Turpentine - Stefan Hertmans 7.2/10
Snap - Belinda Bauer
In Another Country and Besides - Maxwell Jacobs
The books' reviews are here!
2020-2021
Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson 6.5/10
Lost Children Archive - Valerie Luiselli 4.6/10
The Salt Path - Raynor Winn 6.2/10
The Bookwoman of Troublesome Creek - K.M. Richardson
7.1/10
Things Fall Apart - Chiuha Achebe 8.07/10
Small Island - Andrea Levy 7.9/10
Girl Woman Other - Bernardine Evaristo 7.3/10
The Dry - Jane Harper 7.3/10
Nothing to Envy - Barbara Demick 8.4/10
Agent Running in the Field - John LeCarré 5.75/10
Thunderstruck - Erik Larson 7.5/10
The Midgnight Library - Matt Haig
2016-2017
After yet another year of reading, here's a reminder of the books we loved, hated or felt rather uninterested by.
"A Meal in Winter" (Sep) 4.4
"Their Eyes Were Watching God" (Oct) 6.83
"A Gap of Time" (Nov) 5.57
"Slade House" (Dec) 6.57
"A Clockwork Orange" (Jan) 6.36
"Orlando" (Feb) 7.96
"The Kraken Wakes" (Mar) 6.75
"Bonk" (Apr) 6.55
"Dirt Music" (May) 7.1
"The Glass Room" (Jun) 7.58
"Genghis Khan" (Jul) 5.63
2015-2016
Here you find the books we've read in the year of 2015/2016.
The Poisonwood Bible 8.63
Blindness 7.83
Kepler 6.57
Go With Me 4.40
The Twin 7.20
Cold Cold Ground 2.88
The Golem and the Djinni 7.93
The Quiet American 7.10
The Memoirs of Hadrien 7.25
English Passengers
2014-2015
Below you can find an overview of all the books we read for the year 2014-2015
The Devil in the White City 5.14
World War Z 7.06
Breakfast at Tiffany's 8.11
The Lives of Girls and Women 7.14
The House on Mango Street 5.93
We Have Always Lived in the Castle 8.00
I am Malala 6.33
Three Day Road 7.25
Lamb 3.71
The Bellwether Revivals 6.80
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