What I Know About You (Violet Hour Book Club)

Name: What I Know About You (Violet Hour Book Club)
Start: 2025-01-11T15:00:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-11T16:30:00-05:00
Location: Archives gaies du Québec

Schedule

Sat Jan 11 2025 at 03:00 pm to 04:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Archives gaies du Québec | Montreal, QC

Join us for the next meeting of the Violet Hour Book Club, a reading group devoted to classic and contemporary works of LGBTQ literature.
The book we will be discussing is What I Know About You (2024) by Éric Chacour and translated by Pablo Strauss. Participants are invited to read the English translation or the original French version (Ce que je sais de toi, 2023). The conversation will be English.
The VHBC will be meeting at the Archives gaies du Quebec, located at 1000, Atateken (Amherst, #201-A). The event will be moderated by Christopher DiRaddo.
A reminder: All VHBC titles are available at Librairie Paragraphe Bookstore (2220, McGill College Ave) and Librairie Pulp Books & Cafe (3952 Wellington St.) at 10% off.
ABOUT THE BOOK ///
A heartbreaking tale of a family and an impossible love, torn apart by secrets and traditions in late-twentieth-century Cairo.
As a boy in 1960s Cairo, Tarek knows that his entire life is written in advance. He’ll be a doctor like his father, marry, and have children. Under the watchful eyes of his mother and his sister, he starts to do just that – until Ali enters his life and turns it upside down. The two men, from very different worlds, embark on an unsayable relationship that threatens to tear apart Tarek’s family. Years later, as Tarek is living a solitary life in Montreal, someone starts writing about him and to him, piecing together a past he wants only to forget. But who is the writer of this tale? And will he figure it out in time?
A bestseller in its original Quebec edition, and the recipient of several awards, including the Prix Femina des Lycéens, What I Know About You is poised to be an international sensation.