{"id":15751,"date":"2025-07-30T12:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T10:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/lingua-e-cultura\/i-corsi-di-lingua\/the-italian-book-club\/the-italian-book-club-aut-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-09-11T17:25:42","modified_gmt":"2025-09-11T15:25:42","slug":"the-italian-book-club-aut-2025","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/lingua-e-cultura\/i-corsi-di-lingua\/sessioni-term-passati\/the-italian-book-club\/the-italian-book-club-aut-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"The Italian Book Club AUTUMN 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The\u00a0Italian Book Club<\/strong>, presented\u00a0by Enrica Maria Ferrara<\/strong>, will explore\u00a0four books by Italian authors<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

During the first meeting, the facilitator of the Book Club will introduce the book and give some information about its author. Then, each participant will have the chance to read aloud selected passages of the book.<\/p>\n

During the reading, aspects of the book\u2019s grammar, its language structures and its lexicon will be highlighted and explained by the facilitator, and participants will be encouraged to ask questions about the passages that they have found more challenging to read.<\/p>\n

During the second meeting, each participant will be encouraged to discuss the book and the facilitator will guide the conversation by asking questions about the book\u2019s characters, plot, message as well as its style and the overall enjoyment of their particular reading experience.<\/p>\n

Please note that for this course an advanced level of Italian is required.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Meetings with one of more of the selected authors will be organized by this Institute.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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The Italian Book Club consists of 8 meetings of 2 hours each, for a total of 16 hours.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Classes\u00a0will have a minimum of 6 and a maximum of 16 participants and\u00a0will be\u00a0ONSITE<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

The Italian Book Club will meet on the specified dates <\/strong>from 6.30pm to 8.30pm. <\/strong>Please find below the detailed calendar.<\/p>\n

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PROGRAMME<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

The Italian Book Club AUTUMN 2025\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n

All the meetings will be from 6.30pm to 8.30pm on the specified dates.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

Please note that the first meeting will be on a Thursday<\/span> while all the other meetings will happen on Wednesdays.<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Thursday<\/span> <\/strong>18th September and Wednesday 8th October 2025<\/p>\n

Alessandro Baricco<\/strong>,\u00a0Abel<\/em>, Feltrinelli (2023)<\/p>\n

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Wednesdays 22nd October and 5th November<\/p>\n

Chiara Mezzalama<\/strong>, L’inadatta<\/em>, Nutrimenti (2024)<\/p>\n

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Wednesdays 26th November and 10th December<\/p>\n

Nadia Terranova<\/strong>, Quello che so di te<\/em>, Guanda (2024)<\/p>\n

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Wednesdays 14th and 28th January 2026<\/p>\n

Monica Pareschi<\/strong>, Inverness<\/em>, Alessandro Polidoro Editore (2024)<\/p>\n

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Books can be purchased online or are available at International Books<\/a>, 18 South Frederick St, D2 (a 10% discount will be applied if you bring evidence of your enrolment in an IIC course).<\/p>\n

For online orders, the discount code to be used on the International Books website is: iicdublinostud2025<\/strong> \u2013 Please note that this code is case sensitive<\/p>\n

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COST<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

New participants \u2013 \u20ac200<\/strong><\/p>\n

10% discount available <\/strong>for previous participants, returning students, OAPs and full-time students \u2013 on presentation of valid documentation.<\/p>\n

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Please reach out to\u00a0classes.iicdublino@esteri.it<\/strong>\u00a0if you have any queries.<\/p>\n

Please note that the \u201cGuest\u201d option is available only for employees of other cultural institutes and documentation in support needs to be provided.<\/p>\n

Before enrolling, please make sure you have read our\u00a0Terms and Conditions<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"  The\u00a0Italian Book Club, presented\u00a0by Enrica Maria Ferrara, will explore\u00a0four books by Italian authors. During the first meeting, the facilitator of the Book Club will introduce the book and give some information about its author. Then, each participant will have the chance to read aloud selected passages of the book. During the reading, aspects of […]","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"parent":2367,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-15751","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15751","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15751"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15751\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16610,"href":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/15751\/revisions\/16610"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iicdublino.esteri.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15751"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}