**About the Event:**
The event will be a discussion of the book, anyone who has read the book is free to join. Attendees will each get the chance to express their general impressions of the book, and then the host will take us through some discussion points and moderate the session
**About the book:**
**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 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 Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior?

A century after the publication of *The Magic Mountain*, Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore, and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.

**Book Reviews:**

https://www.theatlantic.com/books/archive/2024/10/empusium-olga-tokarczuk-novel-review/680134/

https://www.waterstones.com/book/the-empusium/olga-tokarczuk/antonia-lloyd-jones/9781804271087

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