I think people were happy to have read Periera Maintains by Antonio Tabucchi – they enjoyed the way that the pace built steadily through the book as Periera's conscience grew as he noticed society changing around him in pre-war Portugal. There was also a subtext that immersing yourself in the culture page (or perhaps to translate to the current day, paparazzi journalism) and just digesting what's in the established media can lead one to a rose-coloured view of the world, through someone else's glasses. There was wide agreement that the book's cover really oversold the story itself and that let the book down.
After quite a deal of discussion (largely about page count), we agreed our next book is The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid.
The next book group will be the last official one for the year and will be at The All Nations Hotel as it has been.
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