In this bookclub we aim to read and discuss notable yet often overlooked works of literature, with a focus on independently published works. Books in translation, essay collections — you can't pigeonhole taste.

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Tuesday, September 17, 6:30 PM

When I Sing, Mountains Dance, by Irene Sola

A spellbinding novel that places one family’s tragedies against the uncontainable life force of the land itself.

Near a village high in the Pyrenees, Domènec wanders across a ridge, fancying himself more a poet than a farmer, to “reel off his verses over on this side of the mountain.” He gathers black chanterelles and attends to a troubled cow. And then storm clouds swell, full of electrifying power. Reckless, gleeful, they release their bolts of lightning, one of which strikes Domènec. He dies. The ghosts of seventeenth-century witches gather around him, taking up the chanterelles he’d harvested before going on their merry ways. So begins this novel that is as much about the mountains and the mushrooms as it is about the human dramas that unfold in their midst.

 When I Sing, Mountains Dance, novel by Irene Sola

 


FORTHCOMING PICKS FOR THE UNICORN BOOKCLUB

October 2024:

 


PAST PICKS FOR THE UNICORN BOOKCLUB

August 2024: War and War, by László Krasznahorkai

War and War, by László Krasznahorkai

July 2024: Minor Detail, by Adania Shibli

 Minor Detail, by Adania Shibli

June 2024: Short War, by Lily Meyer

Short War, by Lily Meyer

May 2024: The Guest Lecture, by Martin Riker

 The Guest Lecture, novel by Martin Riker

March 2024: Denmark: Variations, by James Tadd Adcox

Denmark: Variations, by James Tadd Adcox

February 2024: Eastbound

Eastbound, by Maylis de Kerangal

January 2024:

The Trace, a novel by Forrest Gander

December 2023:

November 2023:

October 2023:

Landscapes, a novel by Christine Lai (Two Dollar Radio, 2023)

August 2023:

The Wall, by Marlen Haushofer (Author), Shaun Whiteside (Translator), Claire Louise-Bennett (Afterword)

July 2023:

June 2023:

The Door, by Magda Szabo

May 2023:

Jawbone, by Monica Ojeda

April 2023: Birthday Party

 Birthday Party, by Laurent Mauvignier

March 2023: Two Sherpas

Two Sherpas, by Sebastian Martinez Daniell

February 2023: I Fear My Pain Interests You

I Fear My Pain Interests You, by Stephanie LaCava

January 2023: Septology (Books 1-2)

Septology (Books 1-2), by Jon Fosse

December 2022: The Bear Woman

The Bear Woman, by Karolina Ramqvist

November 2022: Hard Rain Falling

Hard Rain Falling, by Don Carpenter

October 2022: The Hole

The Hole, by Hiroko Oyamada

September 2022: The Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon, by Fabio Zuker & Ezra Fitz

Life and Death of a Minke Whale in the Amazon, by Fabio Zuker & Ezra Fitz

August 2022: Bad Eminence, by James Greer

Bad Eminence, by James Greer

July 2022: When Women Kill, by Alia Trabucco Zeran

When Women Kill by Alia Trabucco Zeran

June 2022: Paradais, by Fernanda Melchor

Paradais by Fernanda Melchor

May 2022: Four Lost Cities, by Annalee Newitz

Four Lost Cities, by Annalee Newitz

April 2022: When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut, translated by Adrian Nathan West

When We Cease to Understand the World, by Benjamin Labatut translated by Adrian Nathan West

March 2022: The Employees, by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aitken

The Employees, by Olga Ravn, translated by Martin Aiken

February 2022: Peach Blossom Paradise, by Ge Fei, translated by Canaan Morse

Peach Blossom Paradise, by Ge Fei

January 2022: Nina Simone's Gum, by Warren Ellis

Nina Simone's Gum, by Warren Ellis

December 2021: His Name Was Death, by Rafael Bernal

His Name Was Death, a novel by Rafael Bernal

 

November 2021: Pity the Beast, by Robin McLean

 Pity the Beast, a novel by Robin McLean

October 2021: The Things We've Seen, by Agustin Fernandez Mallo

The Things We've Seen, a novel by Agustin Fernandez Mallo

 

June 2020: Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir, by Jessica Chiccehitto Hindman

Sounds Like Titanic: A Memoir

May 2020: In the Distance, novel by Hernan Diaz
In the Distance by Hernan Diaz

February 2020: Keywords: The New Language of Capitalism by John Patrick Leary
Keywords

January 2020: Circus by Wayne Koestenbaum
 Circus

December 2019: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Flights by Olga Tokarczuk.

November 2019: Mount Analogue by René Daumal
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October 2019: Polyglot Lovers by Lina Wolff
 Polyglot Lovers

September 2019: As She Climbed Across the Table by Jonathan Lethem
As She Climbed Across the Table

August 2019: Love Drones by Noam Dorr
 Love Drones

July 2019: Devil Comes to Town
Devil Comes to Town

June 2019: On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous

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May 2019: Negrophobia: An Urban Parable

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April 2019: Collected Schizophrenias: Essays by Esmé Weijun Wang.
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March 2019: The Wallcreeper by Nell Zink.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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February 2019: Solar Bones by Mike McCormack.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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January 2019: Samuel Johnson's Eternal Return by Martin Riker.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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December 2018: Grief is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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November 2018: Destroy All Monsters: The Last Rock Novel by Jeff Jackson.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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October 2018: You Could Do Something Amazing with Your Life [You Are Raoul Moat] by Andrew Hankinson.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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September 2018Comemadre by Roque Larraquy, translated by Heather Cleary, published by Coffee House Press in 2018.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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August 2018The First Collection of Criticism by a Living Female Rock Critic by Jessica Hopper, published by Featherproof Books in 2015.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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July 2018: A Loving, Faithful Animal by Josephine Rowe, published by Catapult in September 2017.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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June 2018: Her Mother’s Mother’s Mother and Her Daughters by Maria José Silveira, published by Open Letter Books in December 2017, and translated from the Portuguese by Eric M. B. Becker.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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May 2018: Street of Thieves by Mathias Énard, published by Open Letter in November 2014, and translated from the French by Charlotte Mandell.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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April 2018: Farewell, Damascus by Ghada Samman, published by Darf Publishers in October 2017, and translated from the Arabic by Nancy Roberts.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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March 2018: The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, translated from the French by Alison Anderson, published by Europa Editions in 2008.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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February 2018: Distant Star by Roberto Bolaño, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews, published by New Directions in 2004.
BOOK AVAILABLE FOR PURCHASE ONLINE HERE, OR IN THE STORE.
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