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Vom Ende der Einsamkeit, von Benedict Wells. © Slatkine & Cie, winluk06 at Pixabay

Tue, 02/07/2023

6:30 PM EST

Goethe-Institut Montreal

Presented by Lisez l'Europe

Our upcoming book club will feature a German novel, and will take place Tuesday February 7 at 6:30 pm at the Goethe-Institut Montreal.

The book chosen for this session is "The End of Loneliness", by Benedict Wells (translated by Charlotte Collins). The discussion will be held in French and moderated by Marie-Pierre Poulin, librarian at the Goethe-Institut Montreal.

Please confirm your presence before February 6 at the following address:
lisezleurope-mtl@goethe.de.
 

About the book:

From internationally bestselling author Benedict Wells, a sweeping novel of love and loss, and of the lives we never get to live

“[D]azzling storytelling…The End of Loneliness is both affecting and accomplished — and eternal.” —John Irving

“An exquisitely wrought and utterly absorbing meditation upon life, loss and love.” —Ian McEwan

Jules Moreau’s childhood is shattered after the sudden death of his parents. Enrolled in boarding school where he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are forced to live apart, the once vivacious and fearless Jules retreats inward, preferring to live within his memories – until he meets Alva, a kindred soul caught in her own grief. Fifteen years pass and the siblings remain strangers to one another, bound by tragedy and struggling to recover the family they once were. Jules, still adrift, is anchored only by his desires to be a writer and to reunite with Alva, who turned her back on their friendship on the precipice of it becoming more. But, just as it seems they can make amends for time wasted, invisible forces – whether fate or chance – intervene.

A kaleidoscopic family saga told through the fractured lives of the three Moreau siblings, alongside a faltering, recovering love story, The End of Loneliness is a stunning meditation on the power of our memories, of what can be lost and what can never be let go. With inimitable compassion and luminous, affecting prose, Benedict Wells contends with what it means to find a way through life, while never giving up hope you will find someone to go with you. (penguinrandomhouse.com)

About the Author:

Benedict Wells was born in 1984 in Munich. At the age of six, he started his journey through three Bavarian boarding schools. Upon graduating, he moved to Berlin, where he dedicated his time to writing. In 2016 he won the European Prize for Literature for his third novel, The End of Loneliness, which remained on the German bestseller list for over a year. After years of living in Barcelona, Wells has recently returned to Berlin. (penguinrandomhouse.com)


The book can be obtained (in French) at the following bookstores:

Librairie Gallimard: (10% discount for Lisez l’Europe members)
librairie@gallimardmontreal.com
514 499-2012

Librairie du Square au Carré St-Louis:
librairiedusquare@librairiedusquare.com
514 845-7617

Librairie du Square - Outremont:
outremont@librairiedusquare.com
514 303-0612

Also available as an eBook (in English) on Chapters/Indigo.

English copies are available through the Grande Bibliothèque and the Montreal public library network. One German and one English copy are available from the library of the Goethe-Institut Montreal.

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