Minoa Book Club - The Correspondent
A Monday Evening, A Book, A Conversation…
Minoa Book Club begins this October with The Correspondent by Virginia Evans, on October 19 from 7:00 to 8:30 PM at Minoa Pera.
The Correspondent
Winner of the 2026 Women’s Prize for Fiction, Virginia Evans’s warm, witty, and deeply moving debut tells a life through letters, revealing the joys, regrets, secrets, and unexpected second chances hidden in an apparently ordinary existence.
About Minoa Book Club:
Some books stay with us long after we turn the final page. And some become even richer when we talk about them together.
This season, we’ll meet once a month on Monday evenings (7:00–8:30 PM) at Minoa Pera to read, think, question, disagree, discover, and simply enjoy talking about good books.
Our reading list takes us across countries, cultures, and very different ways of telling a story: from letters that reveal the hidden shape of a life to love and loneliness; from artificial intelligence and what it means to be human to the complexities of motherhood; from art under dictatorship to witch trials, martyrdom, identity, and the mysteries of performance.
19 October 2026 – The Correspondent by Virginia Evans
16 November 2026 – Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
14 December 2026 – Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
18 January 2027 – The Lost Daughter by Elena Ferrante
15 February 2027 – The Director by Daniel Kehlmann
22 March 2027 – The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
19 April 2027 – Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar
24 May 2027 – Audition by Katie Kitamura
You don’t need to be a literary expert. Bring the book, your curiosity, your questions, and perhaps a passage you loved, or hated. The best conversations often begin when we don’t all read the same book in quite the same way.
Once a month. Monday evenings. Minoa Pera.
Come for the books; stay for the conversation.
Minoa Book Club is hosted by Dr. F. Zeynep Bilge. The event is held in English.
Tea and water will be served during the session and are included in the session price.
Please kindly note that the book is not included and can be purchased separately.