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Start: 9:00 am
End: 10:45 am
Eight Wednesdays: Feb. 1-Mar. 21This class will continue review work in its textbook Quaderno degli Esercizi. Emphasis is on review of difficult structures (il congiuntivo) but also on mastery of the language through conversation, vocabulary work and reading. Wendy Walsh, Ph.D. in Italian Literature from UCB, has been teaching Italian language, literature, and cooking since 1979. She leads a yearly Language Study Tour Program to Italy.
Start: 12:00 pm
Tickets $55(includes lunch & a signed book)Call (415) 927-0960, ext. 1 to reserveJoin us for lunch as Lisa See presents her novel Dreams of Joy. She returns to the story of sisters Pearl and May from Shanghai Girls, and Pearl’s strong-willed 19-year-old daughter, Joy. Reeling from newly uncovered family secrets, Joy runs away to Shanghai in early 1957 to find her birth father. Dazzled by him, and blinded by idealism and defiance, Joy throws herself into the New Society of Red China, heedless of the dangers. Pearl is determined to save her daughter, no matter the personal cost.Book
Passage hosts literary luncheons with celebrated authors at our Marin
store. These events are catered by the outstanding Insalata’s Restaurant
of San Anselmo.
Start: 2:00 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Three Wednesdays: Feb. 15-29There is much talk recently about the repatriation of art, from The Bust of Nefertiti to the rape of Europe by the Nazis and the plundering of the National Museum in Bagdad. What are the ethics involved? Should a museum accept and keep purloined art? Topics include The Rosetta Stone, The Elgin marbles, the Cross of Edmund St. Bury, frescoes from Catalonian churches, The Alter of Zeus from Pergamon, Klimt’s Portrait of Anna Bloch-Bauer, and the Getty Museum scandal.
Start: 7:00 pm
Paula Broadwell presents All In: The Education of General David Petraeus ($29.95). Broadwell gives us an examination of Petraeus, one of the most important military leaders in recent years, including his influence in Iraq and Afghanistan and his ascent to the CIA. Broadwell appraises Petraeus’s impact on the entire U.S. military.
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