Norwich Area Book Club: The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel
Date/Time
Date(s) - 11/28/2023
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Location
Westside Branch
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- Arab
- Arab American
- Arab Author
- Arabic Event
- Book Club
- Book Talk
- Books
- Books/Literature
- culture
- Syrian
- Syrian Children
- Syrian Civil War
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on website USD
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Want to meet other book enthusiasts in Norwich? This book club features reads related to personal growth and experience. Join us in November to read “The Beekeeper of Aleppo: A Novel ” by Christy Lefteri .
From the jacket: “Nuri is a beekeeper and Afra, his wife, is an artist. Mornings, Nuri rises early to hear the call to prayer before driving to his hives in the countryside. On weekends, Afra sells her colorful landscape paintings at the open-air market. They live a simple life, rich in family and friends, in the hills of the beautiful Syrian city of Aleppo—until the unthinkable happens. When all they love is destroyed by war, Nuri knows they have no choice except to leave their home. But escaping Syria will be no easy task: Afra has lost her sight, leaving Nuri to navigate her grief as well as a perilous journey through Turkey and Greece toward an uncertain future in Britain.
Nuri is sustained only by the knowledge that waiting for them is his cousin Mustafa, who has started an apiary in Yorkshire and is teaching fellow refugees beekeeping. As Nuri and Afra travel through a broken world, they must confront not only the pain of their own unspeakable loss but dangers that would overwhelm even the bravest souls. Above all, they must make the difficult journey back to each other, a path once so familiar yet rendered foreign by the heartache of displacement.
Moving, intimate, and beautifully written, The Beekeeper of Aleppo is a book for our times: a novel that at once reminds us that the most peaceful and ordinary lives can be utterly upended in unimaginable ways and brings a journey in faraway lands close to home, never to be forgotten.”
The first 10 people to register will be able to pick up a complimentary copy of the book. Register Today!
