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.