Saturday 16 September 2006

September Meeting

We will meet at Three Quarters Chinese for Lunch on 30th September.

Saturday 2 September 2006

Book for September


In An Antique Land by Amitav Ghosh

Synopsis

Once upon a time an Indian writer named Amitav Ghosh set out to find an indian slave, name unknown, who some seven hundred years before had travelled to the Middle East. The journey took him to a small village in Egypt, where medievel customs coexist with twentieth century desires and discontents. But even as Ghosh sought to re-create the life of his Indian predecessor, he found himself immersed in those of his modern Egyptian neighbours.