Public reader discussion about The Village in the WeRead Catalog by Ivan Alekseevich Bunin.
By RapidCrown91
It’s one of those stories set in a small village where everybody knows everybody, and you basically get to watch what everyone’s doing day to day—from the baker all the way to the priest. There’s lots of little plot lines about people’s lives too, maybe some secrets bubbling under the surface, and just what’s really going on in the village.
By cafeMuddy
This is seriously my favorite bookstore ever. Whenever I’m in NYC, I try to stop in. I’ll go even if I end up not buying anything.
By PhotonIsland48
I just finished this book like a couple minutes ago and I honestly feel like I need to talk to someone about it. I haven’t had a book leave me feeling this messed up and unsure how I’m supposed to even think about it—or about the world around it. The descriptions were really beautiful in this way that still felt real, like it actually captured the emotional and physical spaces it was showing. And the writing is so specific to the viewpoint that it kind of forces you to question the narrator, which I did not expect. But wow… it’s also really dark. There’s graphic animal death, descriptions of a child being gang-raped, and there’s this nasty desire sitting underneath basically the whole story. I feel like I probably liked it, but I’m also disgusted and confused, and I can’t get my feelings to line up. Has anyone else read it? What did you think, and what did you take from it?