The Translated Book Club: Neighbours by Lília Momplé

Schedule

Tue Apr 14 2026 at 06:00 pm to 08:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

108 N Pleasant St, Amherst, MA, United States, Massachusetts 01002 | Amherst, MA

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The Translated Book Club promotes the reading of literature translated into English and recognizes and supports translators and their publishers. Each meeting is hosted at UMass Downtown by a UMass Amherst faculty member or graduate student and designed for readers of diverse backgrounds with no specific language requirement other than English.
Sponsored by the Gentzler Translation Center, the club is free and open to community members from high school students to retirees, with a maximum of 15 readers per meeting.
Advanced sign-up is required at https://www.umass.edu/downtown/news-events. The first eight readers to sign up for each meeting receive a free copy of the translated book.
April 14, 2026
Neighbours (Apollo, 2023)
by Lília Momplé
Translated by Richard Bartlett and Isaura de Oliveira
Portuguese > English
Hosted by Emily Barber, Comparative Literature
Program
See other discussion dates and book titles at umass.edu/downtown.
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