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Group
Moore County Ladies Book, Wine and Dine Club
Event Type
Physical
Venue
Whispering Pies
Carthage, NC, us
Address
Whispering Pies, Carthage, NC, us
Group
Moore County Ladies Book, Wine and Dine Club
Event Type
Physical
Venue
Whispering Pies
Carthage, NC, us
Address
Whispering Pies, Carthage, NC, us
Join us for food and drinks at Whispering Pies as we discuss The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk!
Synopsis: The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.
In September 1913, Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in Görbersdorf, what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior?
*Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the surrounding highla...
Join us for food and drinks at Whispering Pies as we discuss The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk!
Synopsis: The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.
In September 1913, Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in Görbersdorf, what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior?
*Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the surrounding highla...