Date: Tuesday 14 October 2025
Time: 18.30 - 19.30 IST
Location: Online via Zoom.
Admission is free, all welcome.
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The book club welcomes people from all round the world for a discussion about a work of fiction which has recently been translated into English. Meetings are on Zoom once a month during Trinity's term time. Admission is free, and participants may join as and when it suits. This month, the book club will be discussing:
There's a Monster behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem, translated from the French by Karen Fleetwood & Laëtitia Saint-Loubert.
About the book - from the book cover:
The name Dessaintes is one to reckon with. A bombastic, violent and increasingly dangerous clan, little do they know that their downfall is being chronicled by one of their own.
This is La Réunion in the 1980s: high unemployment and low expectations, the legacy of postcolonialism. One little girl makes a bid for escape from her sadistic parents’ reign of terror and turns to school for salvation.
Rich in the history of the island’s customs and superstitions, and driven by a wild, offbeat humour, this picaresque tale manages to satirize the very notion of freedom available in this French territory, and perhaps even the act of writing itself and where it might lead you.
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