The Beyond Borders Book Club gives us the opportunity to discover great writing from countries beyond Ireland, recommended by guests who have personal connections to those places. Our guests this year are Cecilia Brizuela, co-ordinator of Women’s Collective Ireland, Aneta Stepien, a university tutor on the first-year Critical Skills programme in Maynooth University and Mercedes Verona originally from Cuba. They will be in conversation with poet Sarah Clancy.

The books under discussion include the Argentinian novel The Adventures of China Iron by Gabriela Cabezón Cámara. This charts the journey of Mrs China Iron, Martín Fierro’s abandoned wife, as she travels across the pampas in a covered wagon with her new-found friend, soon to become lover, a Scottish woman named Liz. The panel will also explore Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk, a Polish novel exploring the murky borderland between sanity and madness, justice and tradition, autonomy and fate in a deeply satisfying tale of mystery, The Man Who Loved Dogs by Leonardo Padura. an ambitious and brilliantly executed novel Beyond Borders allows us to connect with narratives and perspectives from other places and represents a link in the chain of what connects us all around the world, despite the differences in our lives and societies.

The Beyond Borders book club allows us to connect with narratives and perspectives from other places and represents a link in the chain of what connects us all around the world, despite the differences in our lives and societies.

This event is free to attend. Prebooking is advised.

Tickets are available online here or from glór box office on 065 68 43103 (€1 booking fee applies per ticket)

Details of all events to be held at Ennis Book Club Festival from March 6 -8 can be found here

Supported by The Integration Fund and The Ireland Against Racism project

The Ennis Book Club Festival is supported by the Arts Council of Ireland.