SNUAA 북클럽 모임 안내 (9/21 시카고)

안녕하세요,

우리 동창회 북클럽 미팅 일정이 잡혔습니다. 책을 읽기 위한 시간을 감안해 6주 정도 시간적 여유를 두고 공지 드립니다.

예전과 같이 이번 북클럽 모임도 한국문화원(구 한인문화회관) 회의실에서 진행됩니다. 혹시 시간과 날짜가 여의치 않으신 경우 알려주시기 바랍니다. 모든 분들이 만족할 수 있는 스케줄을 잡기는 어렵지만 최대한 많은 분들의 의견을 반영하겠습니다.

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9/21 (토) 11 am -12:30 pm

한국문화원 conference room 
Topic books:  see below. Amazon에서 책을 구입할수 있습니다. Audiobook도 있습니다.

Please RSVP. (김밥을 준비하겠습니다.)

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Topic

두 책 모두 옛날과 현대 미국에서 흑인들의 삶을 다루고 있습니다.  

1. Master Slave Husband Wife (Ilyon Woo)
2. Violin Conspiracy (Brendan Slocumb)

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1. 한국인 2세 우일연작가의 책입니다. 2024년 퓰리처상을 받았습니다.

Master Slave Husband Wife by Ilyon Woo 
https://www.amazon.com/Master-Slave-Husband-Wife-Journey/dp/1501191063/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=

Winner of the 2024 Pulitzer Prize in Biography: “A rich narrative of the Crafts, an enslaved couple who escaped from Georgia in 1848, with light-skinned Ellen disguised as a disabled white gentleman and William as her manservant, exploiting assumptions about race, class, and disability to hide in public on their journey to the North, where they became famous abolitionists while evading bounty hunters.” —The Pulitzer Prizes

Ilyon Woo is the author of The Great Divorce: A Nineteenth-Century Mother’s Extraordinary Fight Against Her Husband, the Shakers, and Her Times. She received a Whiting Creative Nonfiction Writing Grant for MASTER SLAVE HUSBAND WIFE. Her writing has appeared in The Boston Globe and The Wall Street Journal, and she has received support for her research from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the American Antiquarian Society, among other institutions. She holds a BA in the Humanities from Yale College and a PhD in English from Columbia University.

2. Violin Conspiracy by Brendan SlocumbAmazon에서 구입할수 있습니다.

GOOD MORNING AMERICA BOOK CLUB PICK! • Ray McMillian is a Black classical musician on the rise—undeterred by the pressure and prejudice of the classical music world—when a shocking theft sends him on a desperate quest to recover his great-great-grandfather’s heirloom violin on the eve of the most prestigious musical competition in the world.

서울대학교 시카고 동창회
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