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6:00 PM, EST
Lisez la littérature catalane !
Book club|Presented by Lisez l'Europe
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Online Online
- Language French
- Price Free admission - login details will be sent after registration.
The book chosen for this session is "Learning to talk to plants", by Marta Orriols. The discussion will be held in French and moderated by Èric Viladrich, responsable des Études catalanes at the Université de Montréal, and Amélie Clermont-Trottier, student minoring in Catalan studies.
Please confirm your presence before March 21 at the following address:
lisezleurope-mtl@goethe.de
About the book:
Paula’s partner has died in a car accident – but no one knows her true grief. Only hours before his death, Mauro revealed that he was leaving her for another woman.
Paula guards this secret and ploughs on with her job as a paediatrician in Barcelona, trying to maintain the outline of their old life. But all of Mauro’s plants are dying, the fridge only contains expired yoghurt and her mind feverishly obsesses over this other, unknown woman.
As the weeks pass, vitality returns to Paula in unexpected ways. She remembers, slowly, how to live. By turns devastating and darkly funny, Learning to Talk to Plants is a piercingly honest portrayal of grief – and of the many ways to lose someone. (pushkinpress.com)
Translated by Mara Faye Lethem.
About the author
Marta Orriols is a writer living in Barcelona. She studied History of Art at university and later Screenwriting at the Bande à Part Film School in Barcelona and Creative Writing at the Escuela de Escritura del Ateneu Barcelonés. Her first novel, Learning to Talk to Plants, won the Omnium Cultural Prize for the best Catalan novel. (pushkinpress.com)
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 on Chapters.indigo.ca.
French copies are also available through the Grande Bibliothèque. French or English copies are available through the library network of the City of Montreal.