Online
Tuesday Morning Literary Discussion Group
Tuesday, September 14, 2021 10 a.m. – 12 p.m.
Join us for an online book group discussion of this month’s title, A Time of Gifts, by Patrick Leigh Fermor.
Read at your own pace and then join us at 10:00 on Tuesday, September 14 for a lively digital discussion. A link will be sent to the e-mail address associated with your library card one day prior to the event.
For more information call Sara McBride at 803-929-3400.
At the age of eighteen, Patrick Leigh Fermor set off from the heart of London on an epic journey—to walk to Constantinople. A Time of Gifts is the rich account of his adventures as far as Hungary, after which Between the Woods and the Water continues the story to the Iron Gates that divide the Carpathian and Balkan mountains. Acclaimed for its sweep and intelligence, Leigh Fermor’s book explores a remarkable moment in time. Hitler has just come to power but war is still ahead, as he walks through a Europe soon to be forever changed—through the Lowlands to Mitteleuropa, to Teutonic and Slav heartlands, through the baroque remains of the Holy Roman Empire; up the Rhine, and down to the Danube.
At once a memoir of coming-of-age, an account of a journey, and a dazzling exposition of the English language, A Time of Gifts is also a portrait of a continent already showing ominous signs of the holocaust to come.