Book Club is back my loves.
Join us to discuss The Mulai by Munir Hachemi
An archaeologist travels to a distant planet to spend time among a mysterious community, a people who live in temperature-controlled domes, worship a deity called Dog, and repeat an elliptical phrase from which they draw their name: mulai, the tree comes. The descendants of a long-forgotten space mission, the Mulai have abandoned the social norms that once bound them to Earth. Over centuries of isolation, their language has become more about change than stability, and the ways they eat, write, reproduce, bury their dead and understand gender have all transformed into something almost unrecognizable.
As the archaeologist records his attempts to understand their world – a strange negative of our own – questions of translation, meaning-making and the ultimate precarity of civilization come to the fore. Drawing on Borges, Le Guin and Calvino, The Mulai is a mind-bending work of metafiction whose interlocking puzzles resound with Munir Hachemi’s singularly playful and eclectic style.
As always you can choose from a few types of tickets
Event Ticket and a copy of the book with a 10% Discount
Book Voucher and Event Ticket - this ticket means you have £5 to spend on books on the night of the event if you fancy a little retail therapy. This option also helps us keep our events programme running
Event Ticket Only - A classic option, timeless even, absolutely does what it says on the tin
