Rabbi Kraft Memorial Book Club – 1 March 2022

Rabbi Kraft Memorial Book Club
Tuesday 1 March, 19:30

We will continue to meet via Zoom in these uncertain times. The advantage of Zoom is that we have been joined in many meetings by the author of the book we are reading. In January Dhipa Lee (author of Written) was able to give us a fascinating insight into the Bangladeshi community in the UK and in February we were joined by Rachel Kadish live from the US (author of The Weight of Ink).

For March we are reading ‘Piranesi’ by Susanna Clarke. Please note that Susanna Clarke will not be joining us on this occasion.

Winner of the 2021 Women’s Prize for Fiction, and a Sunday Times & New York Times bestseller

Piranesi lives in the House. Perhaps he always has. In his notebooks, day after day, he makes a clear and careful record of its wonders: the labyrinth of halls, the thousands upon thousands of statues, the tides that thunder up staircases, the clouds that move in slow procession through the upper halls. On Tuesdays and Fridays Piranesi sees his friend, the Other. At other times he brings tributes of food to the Dead. But mostly, he is alone. Messages begin to appear, scratched out in chalk on the pavements. There is someone new in the House. But who are they and what do they want? Are they a friend or do they bring destruction and madness as the Other claims? Lost texts must be found; secrets must be uncovered. The world that Piranesi thought he knew is becoming strange and dangerous.

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