Novel Ideas @ MaRS - Spring 2009 April 14, 2009

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Join educator Tina Urman as she explores three internationally acclaimed novels. Discover the resilience of the individual and how the power of art and literature transcend the most difficult of experiences and remind us of our humanity.

The Reader Bernhard SchlinkTuesday April 14, 2009
12pm-1:30pm
CR-5Hailed for its coiled eroticism and the moral claims it makes upon the reader, this mesmerizing novel is a story of love and secrets, horror and compassion, unfolding against the haunted landscape of postwar Germany.When he falls ill on his way home from school, fifteen-year-old Michael Berg is rescued by Hanna, a woman twice his age. In time she becomes his loverthen she inexplicably disappears. When Michael next sees her, he is a young law student, and she is on trial for a hideous crime. As he watches her refuse to defend her innocence, Michael gradually realizes that Hanna may be guarding a secret she considers more shameful than murder.

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Mister Pip Lloyd Jones
Thursday May 7, 2009
12pm-1:30pm
CR-5

After the trouble starts and the soldiers arrive on Matilda's tropical island, only one white person stays behind. Mr. Watts wears a red nose and pulls his wife around on a trolley. The kids call him Pop Eye. But there is no one else to teach them their lessons. Mr. Watts begins to read aloud to the class from his battered copy of Great Expectations, a book by his friend Mr. Dickens.Soon Dickens' hero Pip starts to come alive for Matilda. She writes his name in the sand and decorates it with shells. Pip becomes as real to her as her own mother, and the greatest friendship of her life has begun.But Matilda is not the only one who believes in Pip. And, on an island at war, the power of the imagination can be a dangerously provocative thing.

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People of the Book Geraldine Brooks
Thursday June 4, 2009 12pm-1:30pm
CR-5
From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of March, the journey of a rare illuminated manuscript through centuries of exile and war.In 1996, Hanna Heath, is offered the job of a lifetime: analysis and conservation of the famed Sarajevo Haggadah, which has been rescued from Serb shelling during the Bosnian war. Priceless and beautiful, the book is one of the earliest Jewish volumes ever to be illuminated with images. When Hanna, a caustic loner with a passion for her work, discovers a series of tiny artifacts in its ancient binding she begins to unlock the book's mysteries. The reader is ushered into an exquisitely detailed and atmospheric past, tracing the book's journey from its salvation back to its creation.Hanna's investigation unexpectedly plunges her into the intrigues of fine art forgers and ultra- nationalist fanatics. Her experiences will test her belief in herself and the man she has come to love.

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Attend all three sessions for $30+ tax or $12+ tax per individual session. Price includes refreshments

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MORE INFORMATION:
For more information, contact Janet Grant at 416.673.8115 or via email at [email protected]
or visit www.marsdd.com/novelideas

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Ticket Info:  

• All 3 Sessions
  GST Included ($1.50), C$31.50
• The Reader - Session 1
  Tuesday April 14, 2009
  GST included ($0.60), C$12.60
• Mister Pip - Session 2
  Thursday, May 7, 2009
  GST included ($0.60), C$12.60
• People of the Book - Session 3
  Thursday, June 4, 2009
  GST included ($0.60), C$12.60

Official Website: http://novelideas-spring2009-upcoming.eventbrite.com