Library Book Club
We're highlighting older books that are listed as “must-reads” and are chosen (or resurrected) to celebrate the birthdays of their authors.
Keeping It Reel
Don't miss this fascinating documentary!
Exposing USSR Labour Camps: Smuggling the Gulag Archipelago Out of Soviet Russia
1:00 p.m. on December 7, 2024
Location:
Wilkes County Public Library
North Wilkesboro, NC
Contact:
Suzanne Moore
336-838-2818 ext 241.
Currently Reading
Join us for a conversation about
The First Circle
at noon on December 12 in the
Traphill Branch Library
Set in Moscow during a three-day period in December 1949, 'The First Circle' is the story of the prisoner Gleb Nerzhin, a brilliant mathematician.
At the age of thirty-one, Nerzhin has survived the war years on the German front and the postwar years in a succession of Russian prisons and labor camps.
His story is interwoven with the stories of a dozen fellow prisoners - each an unforgettable human being - from the prison janitor to the tormented Marxist intellectual who designed the Dnieper dam; of the reigning elite and their conflicted subordinates; and of the women, wretched or privileged, bound to these men.
A landmark of Soviet literature, 'The First Circle' is as powerful today as it was when it was first published, nearly thirty years ago.