German Book Club: 'Zukunftsmusik'
Schedule
Tue Jan 10 2023 at 06:30 pm to 08:00 pm
Location
Goethe-Institut Glasgow | Glasgow, SC
About this Event
Picture Source: S Fischer Verlage
Our monthly book club meets up on a Tuesday evening, approx. ten times a year. In an informal atmosphere we discuss (in German) a contemporary novel, short story or a collection of poems which participants read before we meet up.
Join us for the first session in the New Year of our book club to discuss (in German) the novel Zukunftsmusik (Upheaval) by Katerina Poladjan. New members welcome!
About the book:
Four women from four generations, one communal apartment, and the end of an era
This is a story of change: in the vast Siberian expanse, one thousand versts east of Moscow, a grandmother, mother, daughter, and granddaughter live together in one room of a communal apartment, beneath crumbling plaster that hearkens back to bygone days. It is March 11, 1985, and the world is at a historical turning-point that no one can yet anticipate. The engineer next door continues to sort his life into little boxes; Varvara helps deliver a baby; Maria dreams of love; and Janka sings in the kitchen at night.
Upheaval is a powerful novel about four lives on a turning-point, a lost world whose tremors we can still feel today, and the absurdity of life and its great question: “How should we live?”
About the author:
Katerina Poladjan was born in Moscow, grew up in Rome and Vienna and now lives in Germany. A playwright and essayist, her prose debut One Night, Elsewhere was followed by Maybe Marseille, and she also co-wrote the literary travelogue Beyond Siberia with Henning Fritsch. She has been nominated for both the Alfred Döblin Prize and the European Prize for Literature and participated in the 2015 Festival of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt. For Here be Lions she received grants from the German Literature Fund, the Berlin Senate and the Tarabya Cultural Academy in Istanbul.
Upheaval was shortlisted for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize 2022.
Text source: S Fischer Verlage
More information: Goethe-Institut Glasgow Book Club Page.
Where is it happening?
Goethe-Institut Glasgow, 3 Park Circus, Glasgow, United KingdomEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
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