This program is over. Hope you didn't miss it! Browse other programs we offer Windows on the World: Reading Literature from Many Cultures Evening Program Evening Course Monday, October 19, 2020 - 6:45 p.m. to 8:15 p.m. ET Code: 1H0486C Location: S. Dillon Ripley Center1100 Jefferson Dr SWMetro: Smithsonian (Mall exit) Select your Registration $25 Member $35 Non-Member Save when you purchase this program as a part of one of these series! 4 Program Series: Windows on the World: Reading Literature from Many Cultures View series details Resize text Please Note: This program has an rescheduled date (originally May 4, 2020). Since we live in a globalized world, what better way to learn about a variety of distinctive cultures and their histories than to delve into a good story? Read across time and place to consider how authors offer windows into fully imagined worlds different from our own. Join Lisbeth Strimple Fuisz, a lecturer in the English department at Georgetown University, in spirited lectures and informal discussions about four compelling novels. Participants should read the book prior to class. Sherry and cookies are available for refreshment. FEATURED BOOK The God of Small Things (1997) by Arundhati Roy Winner of the Booker Prize, this novel depicts the childhood of fraternal twins Rahel and Esthappen, whose family is visited by personal and political tragedies. If you are interested in additional sessions to this course, please click here.
