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SUMMARY:Tokyo Ebisu Book Club – Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin
LOCATION:The FooTNiK EBISU
DESCRIPTION:Saved in Palaner as: saved\n\nPalaner match: 38% · why: lots of
  people going\n\nRead the book (or most of It)\nOrder a drink/food at the 
 counter\nEnjoy discussing with your fellow book-lovers!\nWe split into gro
 ups for the discussion.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nAugust’s book is: Giovann
 i's Room by James Baldwin\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nFrom one of the most br
 illiant and provocative literary figures of the past century comes a groun
 dbreaking novel set among the bohemian bars and nightclubs of 1950s Paris\
 , about love and the fear of love.\n\nIn the 1950s Paris of American expat
 riates\, liaisons\, and violence\, a young man finds himself caught betwee
 n desire and conventional morality.\n\nDavid is a young American expatriat
 e who has just proposed marriage to his girlfriend\, Hella. While she is a
 way on a trip\, David meets a bartender named Giovanni to whom he is drawn
  in spite of himself. Soon the two are spending the night in Giovanni’s cu
 rtainless room\, which he keeps dark to protect their privacy. But Hella’s
  return to Paris brings the affair to a crisis\, one that rapidly spirals 
 into tragedy.\n\nDavid struggles for self-knowledge during one long\, dark
  night—“the night which is leading me to the most terrible morning of my l
 ife.” With a sharp\, probing imagination\, James Baldwin's now-classic nar
 rative delves into the mystery of loving and creates a deeply moving story
  of death and passion that reveals the unspoken complexities of the human 
 heart.\n~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\nDirections can be found at bottom of www.f
 ootnik.com
URL:https://www.meetup.com/the-tokyo-ebisu-book-club/events/313139929/
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