JULY BOOK
Our book for July is Roadside Picnic (link) by the Russian brother tandem of Arkady and Boris Strugatsky, later adapted into the 1979 film Stalker by acclaimed Russian director Andrei Tarkovsky. We'll continue in the cozy confines of Commercial Drive at Zawa Restaurant & Bar (link). Join the bookateers this Tuesday, July 4 at 7pm for another fine summer patio evening of gourmandizing, gulping and gab. All are welcome as always.
Red Schuhart is a stalker, one of those young rebels who are compelled, in spite of extreme danger, to venture illegally into the Zone to collect the mysterious artifacts that the alien visitors left scattered around. His life is dominated by the place and the thriving black market in the alien products. But when he and his friend Kirill go into the Zone together to pick up a "full empty," something goes wrong. And the news he gets from his girlfriend upon his return makes it inevitable that he'll keep going back to the Zone, again and again, until he finds the answer to all his problems.
