The Free-Range Bookclub
Bookclubbers without boundaries in Nelson, New Zealand
Category: Metafiction
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Posted on June 19, 2007 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel This seemingly simple story of a Japanese man whose cat runs away is anything but. It is a detective story, an account of a disintegrating marriage and an excavation of the buried secrets of World War II and… Continue Reading “The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami”
Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer
Posted on May 29, 2007 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Suzy Everything is Illuminated is the transformation of the author’s own attempts to trace his Jewish-Ukrainian ancestry and the terrible truth about the fate of his extended family who stayed behind in the old country when the Nazis closed… Continue Reading “Everything is Illuminated – Jonathan Safran Foer”
The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood
Posted on May 15, 2007 by thefreerangebookclub
READ FOR BOOKCLUB Chosen by Rachel The Blind Assassin is a book within a book within a book and opens with the following sentence: ‘Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove her car off a bridge’. It has four interweaving narratives,… Continue Reading “The Blind Assassin – Margaret Atwood”
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