The Linenhall World Book Club

Welcome to the Linenhall World Book Club. A monthly meeting for curious readers who love great books. Our global selections will cover all formats: from serious literature to light summer reads, modern fiction, translations, earlier works or popular classics.

September selection is: One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.

One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich is one of the most extraordinary literary documents to have emerged from the Soviet Union and confirms Solzhenitsyn's stature as "a literary genius whose talent matches that of Dosotevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy".
All welcome.

About the host
Michael Minassie is a Journalist, with over thirty years experience. He is producer and host of Mekelle Foresight, a high profile interview show on politics of the Horn of Africa. He also contributes to Community Radio Castlebar FM.
Supported by the Social Inclusion and Community Activation Programme (SICAP)

Reviews for One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
A masterpiece in the great Russian tradition. There have been many literary sensations since Stalin died. Doctor Zhivago apart, few of them can stand up in their own right as works of art. Ivan Denisovich is different New Statesman

For much of the century that he came to dominate, he was simply Russia's greatest writer - Guardian U.K.



Next meeting dates
Tue 22 September
Tue 20th October
Tue 17th November
Tue 15th December