“For all the book lovers out there, there is a great little book shop in Lane D. It is on the right side of the road, above a doctor’s clinic and opposite the stationery shop. Sophia has a good range of new and pre-loved books (both English and German). She will generally buy back any of her books, and if you have any other books you no longer want, she will also try to sell them for you on a consignment basis. She is a lovely lady and very helpful.” - Everything Expats Community Forum
MONSOON: The Indian Ocean and the Future of American Power, By Robert D. Kaplan From the NYT Book review by By Aaron L. Friedberg “…’Monsoon’ is Kaplan’s 13th book, and like much of his earlier work, it contains a special blend of first-person travel writing, brief historical sketches and wide-ranging strategic analysis. Proceeding clockwise from Oman at the mouth of the Persian Gulf, Kaplan comes ashore at various points along the coasts of Pakistan, India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (formerly Burma) and Indonesia before completing his journey in Zanzibar off the shores of East Africa. At each point along the way he finds varying mixtures of economic dynamism, cultural diversity, ethnic tension, ecological strain and political turmoil…” {click here to read the full article by By Aaron L. Friedberg}
NYT book review: THE IMMORTALS, by Amit Chaudhuri (Vintage, $16.95.) The raga-loving scion of a corporate family in 1980s India is the protagonist of this comedy of manners. Chaudhuri “is candid without being cynical” about those who “have made India a global economic player,” Gaiutra Bahadur wrote in the Book Review, admiring the “wry, knowing authorial tone that makes the book so pleasurable.”
Eat, Pray, Love, by Elizabeth Gilbert, is still at the top of the NYT Nonfiction list. Wow! 180 days on the list, too…
EAT, PRAY, LOVE, by Elizabeth Gilbert. (Penguin, $15 and $16.) A writer’s yearlong journey in search of self takes her to Italy, India and Indonesia.
Culture of Opportunity: Obama’s Chicago
The People, Politics, and Ideas of Hyde Park
by Rebecca Janowitz
Please join with 57th Street Books in celebrating the publication of Rebecca Janowitz’s Culture of Opportunity with a book reading and signing at the University of Chicago’s Quadrangle Club.
About Culture of Opportunity:
Rebecca Janowitz’s portrait of Hyde Park - the Chicago South Side neighborhood long noted for its progressive politics - offers an expert, insider’s social and political perspective on this intriguing community that in many ways nurtured Barack Obama’s political career and made possible his run for the presidency. Sixty years ago - due to a major community grassroots organizing effort, followed by a publicly funded urban renewal program - the Hyde Park-Kenwood area of Chicago emerged as a diverse, politically confident community in a key lakefront location within a city noted for its segregated neighborhoods, cultivating a rich and congenial cultural tradition.
Where & When
Quadrangle Club
1155 E. 57th Street
Chicago, IL 60637
Wednesday, May 19th
5.00p
