Author: John Boyne
It is a story about two boys; very different lives but very similar at the same time. Bruno and Shmuel, the first German and the other one Jewish. Bruno lives right next to the Auschwitz concentration camp, and you can guess where Schmuel lives, the area is divided only by a fence.
Author: Ken Follett
Set in 12th-century England, the narrative concerns the building of a cathedral in the fictional town of Kingsbridge. The ambitions of three men merge, conflict and collide through 40 years of social and political upheaval as internal church politics affect the progress of the cathedral and the fortunes of the protagonists.
Author: John Eldredge
Life for most of us feels like a movie we’ve arrived to forty minutes late. For when we were born, we were born into the midet of a great story begun before the dawn of time.
Author: Marina Lewycka
Synopsis:
‘Two years after my mother died, my father fell in love with a glamourous blonde Ukrainian divorcee. He was eighty-four and she was thirty-six. She exploded into our lives like a fluffy pink grenade, churning up the murky water, bringing to the surface a sludge of sloughed-off memories, giving the family ghosts a kick up the backside.’ Sisters Vera and Nadezhda must put aside a lifetime of feuding to save their emigre engineer father from voluptuous gold-digger Valentina. With her proclivity for green satin underwear and boil-in-the-bag cuisine, she will stop at nothing in her pursuit of Western wealth. But the sisters’ campaign to oust Valentina unearths family secrets, uncovers fifty years of Europe’s darkest history and sends them back to roots they’d much rather forget…
The current novel is Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
The international literary sensation–a runaway bestseller in Spain–is about a boy’s quest through the secrets and shadows of postwar Barcelona for a mysterious author whose book has proved as dangerous to own as it is impossible to forget.
Welcome to Rowena Book Club. We are a small group of book lovers from Rowena, North West New South Wales, Australia. We meet
every six weeks to discuss the chosen titles.
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