Welcome to Dream Big’s Book Club!
It is a place where we bond with words, ideas, and many fruitful discussions.
Club representative: Alyaa Alasfoor
What do we read: We read fiction and nonfiction and experiment in every possible genre.
Where do we meet: Currently through Zoom.
Who can be a member: Anyone can join our reading journey.
Duration of each book to read: 1 month (Can be changed depending on the book).
Rules:
1. We will host an online meeting after 1 month of assigning the book.
2. Discussion of the book is open on the WhatsApp group and during the online meeting.
(No other topics or advertisements are to be posted without admin permission.)
3. We try to set a friendly atmosphere for everyone so please refrain from using any vulgar or inappropriate language.
Book Title:
Author:
27th March, 2021 at 7:00 p.m.
Meeting Date and Time:
"Aravind Adiga’s The White Tiger, which was awarded the
Man Booker Prize in 2008, is singular in its fictionalized portrayal of
the relationship between Balram Halwai and his master Mr Ashok. The
story exposes the poor-rich divide that surrounds India in the backdrop
of economic prosperity, in the wake of the IT revolution."
Book Description:
The White Tiger
Aravind Adiga
Introducing a major literary talent, The White Tiger offers a story of coruscating wit, blistering suspense, and questionable morality, told by the most volatile, captivating, and utterly inimitable narrator that this millennium has seen.
1984
George Orwell
Nineteen Eighty-Four is George Orwell's terrifying vision of a totalitarian future in which everything and everyone is slave to a tyrannical regime.
Wonder
R.J. Palacio
Wonder is an inspiring tale of acceptance that encourages people to embrace differences. The novel follows Auggie, a young boy with a facial deformity in his first school experience.
Ward no. 6
Anton Chekhov
Ward no. 6 is a short story by Anton Chekhov, published in Russian in 1892. The story is set in a provincial mental asylum and explores the philosophical conflict between a patient and the director of the asylum.
The Master and Margarita
Mikhail Bulgakov
The novel is a penetrating philosophical work that wrestles with profound and eternal problems of good and evil. It is considered a 20th-century masterpiece.
The Man in the High Castle
Philip K. Dick
It's America in 1962. Some twenty years earlier the United States lost a war and is now occupied by Nazi Germany and Japan.
Slaughterhouse-Five
Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Slaughterhouse-Five, or The Children's Crusade: A Duty-Dance with Death is a science fiction infused anti-war novel by Kurt Vonnegut, first published in 1969.
I Am Nujood, Age 10 and Divorced
Nujood Ali
The internationally bestselling true story of the remarkable ten-year-old Yemeni girl who dared to defy her country’s most archaic traditions by fighting for a divorce
The Tell-Tale Heart
Edgar Alan Poe
A murderer is convinced that the loud beating of his victim's heart will give him away to the police.
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Alyaa Alasfoor: +973 33335034
Ali Saleh: +973 33513425
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