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Dear Educators,
After the success of last year's Global Literature Online Book Group, the Davis Center will be kicking off the 2013-14 season on November 13 with a discussion of The Dream Life of Sukhanov, featuring author Olga Grushin. Registration details and a short excerpt are below.
Also to come: thematic events around the history and impact of the Second World War in the USSR. Featuring both online and local programming, the series will include webinars, a new resource page for educators, and a photography exhibit by artist Jill Bough. Look out for more information later this month.
Best wishes for the fall,
The Davis Center Outreach Team
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Global Literature Online Book Group
Register for the Davis Center's Nov. 13 Session
 "The Moscow River moved its slow, dense, brown waters, and from their depths emerged a flimsy upside-down city that existed only at night, created by a thousand shimmering intertwinings of streetlights, headlights, floodlights. The walls, the churches, the bell towers of the underwater city trembled with a desire to break free, to float away with the current, to leave the oppressing, crowded, dangerous Moscow far, far behind; but the night held them firmly, and they stayed forever tethered to their places by infinite golden chains of reflections... Sukhanov looked at the rainbow-colored film spreading across the water. The invitation burned in his pocket, and that unnameable feeling was beating its great black wings in the hollow of his soul."
Interested in reading more? Register now for the Davis Center's online book group session on Wednesday, November 13, 2013, at 7 p.m. Author Olga Grushin will be present in our online classroom for the discussion. The first 15 educators to register will receive free copies of the novel.
More information on the entire 2013-14 season of the Global Literature Online Book Group for Educators is available at the new Global Studies Outreach at Harvard website. Upcoming books include Dreaming in Cuban by Cristina Garcia, Dream of Ding Village by Yan Lianke, Behind the Beautiful Forevers by Katherine Boo, and Maps by Nuruddin Farah.
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