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• WA141 The First Day of Spring (Le Premier Jour du Printemps) by Nancy Tucker

  • When
    14 Apr 2023
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
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    1

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  Chrissie is eight and she has a secret: she has just killed a boy.  Twenty years later, adult Chrissie is a single mother, all she wants is for her daughter to have the childhood she herself was denied. People are looking for them, the past is catching up.

  Nancy Tucker’s chilling novel challenges the reader to ruminate the question  : who deserves punishment and who deserves empathy?

  ‘Gripping…The voices of Chrissie and Julia reside deep in your skull: visceral and wicked, sad and wonderful, all at the same time.’ The New York Times

  ‘Genèse du crime, culpabilité et rédemption, voilà les sillons explorés par le magnifique roman de Nancy Tucker.’ La Voix du Nord

  
  

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• WY1201 Nos richesses (Our Riches / A Bookshop in Algiers) by Kaouther Adimi

  • When
    12 May 2023
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    2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
  • Location
    Centre Culturel Irlandais, 5 rue des Irlandais, 75005 Paris
  • Spaces left
    12

  Kaouther Adimi’s award-winning novel charts the changing fortunes of a bookshop in Algiers.  In 1936, the young Edmond Charlot opens a modest bookshop.  In time, the bookshop is shuttered and transformed into a government library.  Decades later, it is to be closed forever and a young man is charged with emptying it of its books.  Mixing political drama, revolution and the independence of Algeria, Adimi takes the reader on a moving journey to celebrate books, bookshops and the power of a dream.

  ‘A Bookshop in Algiers reminds us that in literature, as in life, we belong to a place only temporarily - and we shape it according to our memories.’ Financial Times

  ‘Nos richesses" sonne comme une splendide déclaration d'amour à la littérature, seul trait d'union entre les époques et les êtres.’ Elle

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