Title:
Pedro Páramo
Author:
Juan Rulfo
Genre:
Classics, Cult
Release Date:
1994
Pages:
124
Meeting: Wednesday 7th October 2003
It has taken me some time to write the review of Pedro Paramo, and I still don’t know what to say. At this stage I can only be brief but feel this book deserves a couple of re-reads.
Juan Preciado, promises his dying mother that he will search for his father, Pedro Paramo. He then embarks on a journey to find the town of Comala, somewhere in
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Title:
The Story of Lucy Gault
Author:
William Trevor
Genre:
Cork (Ireland)
Release Date:
2010
Pages:
227
Summer, 1921. Eight-year-old Lucy Gault clings to the glens and woods above Lahardane - the home her family is being forced to abandon. She knows the Gaults, as Protestants, are no longer welcome in Ireland and that danger threatens. She is headstrong and decides that somehow she must force her parents into staying. But the path she chooses ends
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Title:
Embers
Author:
Sandor Marai
Genre:
Fiction
Publisher:
Vintage
Release Date:
2002
Pages:
213
Meeting: Saturday 29th January 2005
Two best friends grow up together in the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the early 1900s. As young boys, they were inseparable in the military academy. The boy from the privileged background was destined to become Army General and the other, well, he was always destined to be different, and never did quite fit the military mould. The rich lad pleasured
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