The Hemingway Book Club of Kosovo (Hardcover)

from thornton37814

Huntley's husband decided to take a one year leave of absence to go to Kosovo to help with the legal system. She took a brief TESL course so that she could teach English to persons desiring to learn. She found a used copy of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea which turned out to be one of the be...

from thornton37814

Huntley's husband decided to take a one year leave of absence to go to Kosovo to help with the legal system. She took a brief TESL course so that she could teach English to persons desiring to learn. She found a used copy of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea which turned out to be one of the be...

from BookConcierge

Book club # 1 read [Reading Lolita in Tehran] and the very next day Book Club # 2 was discussing this work. I much preferred this one. I kept reading passages aloud to my husband - because it was so like our own experiences in Sarajevo. Very interesting to read, but not much for discussion. Still...

from debnance

No, with killing and bombings and trash dumped in the street and racial hatred, Kosovo doesn't sound like a great place to visit. But when Paula Huntley's husband was sent to Kosovo to help establish a legal system, Huntley impulsively decides to accompany him and later jumps into teaching a grou...

from jlcarroll

I enjoyed this touching memoir of Huntley's year as an ESL teacher in Kosovo, which followed close on the heels of the 1999 genocide. As a person who lived in Kenya for six months in 1994, I identified with her journey of self-discovery as she developed extraordinary relationships with her studen...