Kurdish Book Club
Kurdish literature is rich, compelling, and diverse, and it should be better known. In our Book Club we read novels as well as nonfiction, then meet to discuss them (in English).
We meet on the first Tuesday of each month, at 7:00 pm ET via Zoom. Come join us—share your thoughts, expand your understanding, and build bonds.
To find out more or to register, write to bookclub@nykcc.org.
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For our next meeting: We will discuss Lojman by Ebru Owen, a novel published by City Lights in 2023, Length: 224 pages. The book is available for purchase here.
Date: Tuesday, June 4, 2024
Time: 7-8pm EDT
Place: Zoom
Info: bookclub@nykcc.org
Winner of the Republic of Consciousness Prize.
A Kurdish family lives in a small village on a desolate plateau at the foot of the snow-capped mountains of Turkey’s Van province. Virtually every aspect of the family’s life is dictated by the government, from their exile to the country’s remote, easternmost region to their sequestration in the grim “teacher’s lodging”—or lojman—to which they’re assigned. When the husband/father walks out one day, he leaves in his wake a storm of resentment between his young children and a mother reluctant to parent them.
Written in startling, raw prose, Lojman spins a domestic drama crystallized through the family’s mental and physical claustrophobia.
