The Lane Non-Fiction Book Club - January
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Join us for our monthly non-fiction book club, where we read and discuss titles from across the non- fiction spectrum.🗓️ Thursday 15th January
🕒 Doors open 5:30pm for a 6pm start
📍 The Lane Bookshop
🎫 Tickets: $5 including wine and nibbles
In January the book being discussed is 58 Facets by Marika Sosnowski.
58 Facets is like a beautifully cut jewel, the kind Marika Sosnowski’s grandfather would have bought, cut and sold after he arrived in Melbourne in 1947, having passed through a checkpoint minutes ahead of Nazi occupiers, via a Japanese internment camp in Java and a migrant accommodation camp just outside of Brisbane. If you hold it up to the light you will catch different stories in each of its many facets. You will have the table, the bezel, the star and the upper girdle, the lower girdle, the pavilion and the culet. You will have the dreams, the checkpoints, the documents, the bribes, the camps, the occupation and the resistance.
Part memoir, part exposé, 58 Facets weaves together the narratives of Holocaust survivors and Israeli war criminals with Syrian activists, revolutionaries and dissenters. It challenges us to go beyond the links we see in our lives to our felt experiences of the law, violence and revolution, and how these experiences travel across bodies, space and time.
Date
Thursday 15 January 2026 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM (UTC+08)Location
The Lane Bookshop
52C Old Theatre Lane, CLAREMONT WA 6010
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The Lane Non-Fiction Book Club - January
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