Club de Lecture - Book Club
The Alliance Française is trialling a different way to practise your French. On the third Thursday of every month, a French book (with no translations) will be selected and discussed for 90 minutes, allowing you to develop and improve your reading and comprehension skills.
Who: Available for members and students of the Alliance Française d'Adelaïde
Where: Alliance Française d'Adelaïde, 319 Young Street, Wayville
When: Thursday once a month, 6:30pm - 8pm during school terms, unless scheduled otherwise.
Please contact Laureline if you would like more information.
2020
June
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Les mouches d'automneThursday 18 June, 6:30pmONLINE via Webex This month, the book club will discuss Les mouches d'automne by Irene Nemirovsky: Tatiana Ivanovna devoted her entire life to her masters, the Karines, whom she saw born and grow. When the Russian revolution drives them out of their domain, it follows them to Odessa first, then to Paris, in this small apartment in the Ternes district, where exiles turn in circles like autumn flies... |
Mai
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Un étéThursday 21 May, 6:30pmONLINE via Webex This month, the book club will discuss Un Ete by Vincent Almendros, which depicts two brothers and their companions on a boat. The cruise takes place in overwhelming heat and atmosphere. Implied, out of scope and unspoken cross the narrative until an amazing ending revealed at the very end. |
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Chanson douceThursday 30 April, 6:30pmONLINE via Webex This month, the book club will discuss Chanson douce by Leïla Slimani, which follows the murder of two children by their nanny, inspired by the real-life 2012 murder of children by their nanny in New York. |
Février
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Les hirondelles de KaboulThursday 20 February, 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville This month, the book club will discuss Les hirondelles de Kaboul by Yasmina Khadra, which follows four characters living in Kabul: Atiq, his wife Mussarat, Mohsen Ramat and his wife Zunaira. The book traces how their lives intertwine in a city led by the Taliban and the Mullahs. |
2019
Decembre
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POLICEThursday 12 December, 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville This month, the book club will discuss POLICE by Hugo Boris, which follows three police officers who must take a foreigner back to the border. |
Novembre
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Il pleuvait des oiseauxThursday 21 November, 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville This month, the book club will discuss Il pleuvait des oiseaux by Jocelyne Saucier, which follows three old hermits living in the Abitibi Forest in Québec. |
Octobre
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La cicatriceThursday 24 October, 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville This month, the book club will discuss La cicatrice by Bruno Lowery, which follows Jeff, an outcast because of a 'scar', who steals a classmate's stamps and the ensuing cover-up of his actions. |
Septembre
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Un barrage contre le PacifiqueThursday 19 September, 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville This month, the book club will discuss Un barrage contre le Pacifique by Marguerite Duras, which follows a widow and her two children living on an isolated and uncultivable concession in the south of French Indochina during the 1930s. |
Août
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La Tragédie du roi ChristopheThursday 22 August, 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville This month, the book club will discuss La Tragédie du roi Christophe by Aimé Césaire, which follows the historical figure of Henri Christophe, a slave who rose to become a general in Toussaint Louverture’s army. |
Juillet
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Couleurs de l'incendieThursday 18 July, 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville This month, the book club will discuss Couleurs de l'incendie by Pierre Lemaitre, which follows Madeleine, the sole heiress of the immense financial empire left by her recently deceased father, who must now take over the management of the family bank. |
Juin
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Frappe-toi le cœurThursday 20 June, 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville This month, the book club will discuss Frappe-toi le cœur by Amélie Nothomb, which follows Marie, a woman who becomes envious of her own daughter, Diana, for becoming as beautiful and popular as she used to be. |
Mai
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Et puis, PauletteThursday, 23 May - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville This month, the book club will discuss Et puis, Paulette by Barbara Constantine, a charming tale of family, friendship, love and loneliness. |
Avril
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Un secretThursday, 18 April - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing Un secret by Philippe Grimbert, which follows Maxime Nathan and his Jewish family in France during the years leading up to World War II. His skinny, sickly son, François, dreams of a stronger, fitter, more charismatic older brother to compensate for his own feelings of inadequacy. Only gradually does he learn of his parents' tragic past and that he has a sibling — a half-brother named Simon, his father's first son. |
Mars
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La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinteThursday, 14 March - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing La grosse femme d'à côté est enceinte by Michel Tremblay, which takes place over the course of a single date, May 2, 1942, in the Plateau Mont-Royal neighborhood of Montreal. It focuses on several working-class families as well as two prostitutes. |
Février
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Notre part des ténèbresThursday, 21 February - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing Notre part des ténèbres by Gerard Mordillat, which tells the story of Gary and other members of Mondial Laser, a high-tech company, who seize a luxury ship full of their shareholders and divert its course north to colder waters. |
2018
Décembre
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Marx et la poupéeWednesday, 19 December - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing Marx et la poupée by Maryam Madjidi, which tells of Maryam's experience of being in in Paris due to her father's exile during the Iranian Revolution. Through the memories of her early years, Maryam recounts the abandonment of the country, the removal of her family, and the loss of her toys - given to the children of Teheran under the orders of her communist parents. |
Novembre
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Le livre des BaltimoreWednesday, 28 November - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing Le livre des Baltimore by Joël Dicker, which tells the story of Marcus Goldman, who is struggling to write his third novel. A chance encounter in Florida throws him some inspiration from a surprising source: Alexandra Neville, the beautiful, phenomenally successful singer and Marcus's first love. |
Octobre
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La Vénus d'IlleWednesday, 31 October - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing La Vénus d'Ille by Prosper Mérimée, which tells the story of a statue of Venus that comes to life and kills the son of its owner, whom it believes to be its husband. |
Septembre
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Le berceau du mondeWednesday, 26 September - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing Le berceau du monde by Fady Stephan, a lyrical and poetic epic about Lebanon, cradle of the world filled with thousand-year-old legends. |
Août
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Le collier rougeWednesday, 22 August - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will to discuss Le collier rouge by Jean-Christophe Rufin, a story about a war hero, a young intelligent woman, and a judge in 1919 France, and the dog who holds the key to their destinies. |
Juillet
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Plage de Manaccora, 16h30Wednesday, 25 July - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will to discuss Plage de Manaccora, 16h30 by Philippe Jaenada, about a family on vacation is southern Italy during the wildfires of summer. An excellent insight on man's greatness and shortcomings, the vanity of their efforts, and the fragile beauty of life. |
Juin
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Sauve-moiWednesday, 27 June - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will to discuss Sauve-moi by Guillaume Musso, about Sam Galoway, a thirty-year-old New Yorker who one day meets Juliette, a pretty 28-year-old French waitress in a bar who dreams of becoming an actress. |
Mai
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Sept jours pour une éternitéWednesday, 23 May - 6:30pmAlliance Française, 319 Young St, Wayville For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will to discuss Sept jours pour une éternité by Marc Levy, about an absurd bet between God and Lucifer to put an end to their eternal rivalry, as they each send their best agents to Earth with seven days to see who will triumph and ultimately rule mankind: Good or Evil? |
Avril
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Au-revoir là-haut
Wednesday, 18 April - 6:30pm |
Février
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La Possibilité d'une île
Wednesday, 28th February - 6:30pm For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will continue to discuss La Possibilité d'une île by Michel Houellebecq, which tells the story of Daniel, a successful comedian, and his two clones, in a post-apocalyptic future set in a cloning cult. |
2017
Décembre
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La Possibilité d'une île
Wednesday, 29th November - 6:30pm-8pm For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing La Possibilité d'une île by Michel Houellebecq , which tells the story of Daniel, a successful comedian, and his two clones, in a post-apocalyptic future set in a cloning cult. |
Novembre
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No et Moi
Wednesday, 29 November - 6:30pm-8pm For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing No et Moi by Delphine de Vigan , which tells the story of thirteen-year old Lou, a gifted but lonely child, and Nora (nicknamed No), a homeless girl who Lou interviews for a school project after seeing her at the Gare d'Austerlitz. |
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L’écume des jours
Wednesday, 18 October - 6:30pm-8pm For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing l’écume des jours by Boris Vian, a surrealist style book which follows multiple plot lines, including the love stories of two couples, talking mice, and a man who ages years in a week. |
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Septembre
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Ce que le jour doit à la nuit
Wednesday, 27th September - 6:30pm-8pm For this month's Club de Lecture, the club will be discussing Ce que le jour doit à la nuit by Yasmina Khadra, which follows the life of a young man, Younes, from his childhood in Algeria in the 1930s to his life as an adult. |
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