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Join us for a reading group and then meet the author afterwards! Almost Everything Very FastÌýis German award-winning author Christopher Kloeble'sÌý3rd book and his North American debut. (His 4th book, Die Unsterbliche Familie Salz, just came out in August.)

The À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Centre for German Studies is once again offering a reading group. This term, we'll be reading Daniel Kehlmann'sÌýDie Vermessung der Welt/Measuring the World.

Choose Your Own German Book!

This semester, instead of the Centre stipulating the book, we're leaving it up to you!ÌýSo, read whatever German-related book you'd like, be it written by a German/Swiss/Austria author in whatever language you can easily read, or a novel that really interests you that's been translated into

We're going back to the Wild West, German style, with Karl May's Winnetou I (1893) and the Brubacher House.

We'll begin the evening with a short tour of the historic, Mennonite home and then sit down for our book discussion in itsÌýstone-walled basement, next to a cozy fire.

This summer, we’ll be reading

Heike Geißler: Saisonarbeit / Seasonal Associate, trans. Katy Derbyshire

This fall, we’ll be reading

Benedict Wells: Vom Ende der Einsamkeit / The End of Loneliness, trans. Charlotte Collins
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If you want to learn more about the book here are some articles from the Guardian and Süddeutsche:

The WCGS German Reading Group has selected °Õö³¦³ó³Ù±ð°ù / Daughters by Lucy Fricke, translation by Sinéad Crowe as its next read.

Canada is the guest of honour at the 2021 Frankfurt Book Fair. In that spirit, the À¶Ý®ÊÓƵ Centre for German Studies has chosen a Canadian author in German translation and is offering this meeting on a Sunday to make it more convenient for fellow readers from Germany to join us. We'll be reading A Complicated Kindness/Ein komplizierter Akt der Liebe, by Miriam Toews, translation by Christiane Buchner.

Hailed as a remarkable literary discovery, a lost novel of heart-stopping intensity and harrowing absurdity about flight and persecution in 1930s Germany