SEPTEMBER BOOK
Our September selection is The Children of Men (link) by noted English mystery writer P.D. James. This dystopian vision of the near future is a departure from her regular oeuvre and in 2006 was adapted brilliantly for the screen by noted Mexican director Alfonso Cuaron. We're back to our regular second Tuesday of the month schedule, so come and join the jocular japing on Tuesday, September 10 at our usual haunt, Zawa restaurant on Commercial Drive off Venables (link). Festivities commence at 7pm and everyone is welcome. Check the patio first if the late summer weather is co-operating.
Civilization itself is crumbling as suicide and despair become commonplace. Oxford historian Theodore Faron, apathetic toward a future without a future, spends most of his time reminiscing. Then he is approached by Julian, a bright, attractive woman who wants him to help get her an audience with his cousin, the powerful Warden of England. She and her band of unlikely revolutionaries may just awaken his desire to live . . . and they may also hold the key to survival for the human race.
