Marsha Razin z”l Book and Film Club will meet April 8, 2024 at 7:30 p.m. to discuss A Play for the End of the World by Jai Chakrabarti.
New York City, 1972. Jaryk Smith, a survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto, and Lucy Gardner, a southerner, newly arrived in the city, are in the first bloom of love when they receive word that Jaryk’s oldest friend has died under mysterious circumstances in a rural village in eastern India.
Traveling there alone to collect his friend’s ashes, Jaryk soon finds himself enmeshed in the chaos of local politics and efforts to stage a play in protest of the government—the same play that he performed as a child in Warsaw as an act of resistance against the Nazis. Torn between survivor’s guilt that he carried for decades and his feelings for Lucy, Jaryk must decide how to honor both the past and the present, and how to accept a happiness he is not sure he deserves.
It is said to be a “dazzling novel-set in the early 1970s New York and rural India-the story of a turbulent, unlikely romance, a harrowing account of lasting horrors of WorldWar II, and a searing examination of one man’s search for forgiveness and acceptance”.
We wish we could tell you where all the meetings will take place – at the Library or on Zoom, but as you know, nothing right now can be predicted, so we’ll be taking the location month by month for a while. We all look forward to peaceful times.
Our Book and Film Club is open to all interested adults in the area. All meetings and materials are in English. The meetings will be held on the second Monday of each month, unless otherwise indicated. When are discussing a book, the meeting will start at 7:30 p.m. When we watch a film, the meeting will start at 7:15 p.m.
A 10 NIS donation is requested when films are shown.
Up next: The Book & Film Club will meet again on May 20 to discuss The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn.
See the full 2023-2024 lineup here.