Our book, Fathers and Sons by Ivan Turgenev was apparently something of an upheaval in Russian writing but I found it very hard going to read. I didn’t care for the characters in the book much, they seemed pompous and brimming with entitlement and disdain for other people not of their class. The only character that seemed to have any sense of humanity was Madame Odintsova but even the interactions between her and the wooden and remote main characters never seemed to mesh, something that I’m sure the author was fully aware of.
Our book for next month is Convenience Store Woman by Sayaka Murata. I’m not sure quite how we wound up landing on this book but there was another of those long sessions as we bandied around all sorts of options and possibilities. See you at the All Nations on August 4.
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