Country: Italy
Description
of activity:
Name of
partner organization: Tecnopras
s.a.s.
Number
of participants: 9
Target
group: Migrants
Date: 22 November 2014
Location: Association Gli
Argonauti 2000, Rome
Duration: 2 hours
Book
chosen: ‘The storyteller’, Mario Vargas Llosa (A visitor from Peru, happening
upon an exhibition of photographs from the Amazon jungle in an obscure
Florentine picture gallery, finds his attention drawn to a picture of a tribal
storyteller seated among a circle of Michiguenga Indians. There is something
odd about the storyteller. He is too light-skinned to be an Indian. As the
visitor stares at the photograph, it dawns on him that he knows this man. The
storyteller is his long-lost friend, Saul Zuratas, his classmate from
university who was thought to have disappeared in Israel. ‘The Storyteller’ is
a brilliant and compelling study of the world of the primitive and its place in
our own modern lives.)
A woman,
who has been participating to the Reading Clubs from the very beginning, has
proposed the book for this meeting. She contacted us via mail and suggested the
choice. We brought the book and copies of the first chapter in the club so that
everybody could follow the story. As a first step, however, we asked if someone
had any other book suggestion that we could discuss. All participants were very
happy with choosing Vargas Llosa. At the end of the meeting, two men from Asia
applied to propose the books for next Reading Club.
A good
half of the group has decided to meet extra Club before Christmas to visit some
Churches in the center of Rome sharing the price for a touristic guide who
could explain them the cultural details.
