Book Club: "House of Day, House of Night" by Olga Tokarczuk
Schedule
Thu, 23 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
Lot 63 | Winston Salem, NC
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ππ°πΆπ΄π¦ π°π§ ππ’πΊ, ππ°πΆπ΄π¦ π°π§ ππͺπ¨π©π΅ by Olga TokarczukA woman settles in a remote Polish village where she knows no one. It has few inhabitants, but it teems with the stories of the living and the dead. There's the drunk Marek Marek, who discovers that he shares his body with a bird, and Franz Frost, whose nightmares come to him from a newly discovered planet. There's the man whose deathβwith one leg on the Polish side, one on the Czechβwas an international incident. And there are the Germans who still haunt a region that not long ago they called their own.
A patchwork of interconnected stories, essays, and myths, House of Day, House of Night explores themes of history, identity, and the supernatural through local legends, folklore, and the lives of its inhabitants.
NCMA W-S Book Club
This spring, Book Club is π§π°πΆπ―π₯ πͺπ― π΅π³π’π―π΄ππ’π΅πͺπ°π―, exploring foreign landscapes both internal and external in search of the feelings and realizations that make us human. The book selections, all originally published in languages other than English, introduce us to characters and cultures different from those that occupy much of American and British literature.
What do we gain when such stories are brought into English? How is our understanding of the world β and ourselves β affected by stories from other countries? Join us for what might be our most ambitious set of novels yet.
Book Club is going offsite this season. This discussion will take place downstairs at Lot 63 (614 S Main St. Winston-Salem, NC 27101).
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Where is it happening?
Lot 63, 614 S Main St, Winston-Salem, NC 27101, United States, Winston SalemEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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