WIFE PROJECT IN THE CLUB

The Santa Eulària des Riu Reading Club meets 16 years and at your next meeting, el martes, 2 November Graeme Simsion's book will be discussed, The wife project. A hilarious and surprising novel that stars an exceptional character: the clever, obsessive and literal Don Tillman.

Tillman remembers the television character Sheldom Cooper, for which to navigate this world of emotions complex and incoherent, populated by beings who often say exactly what they think, It constitutes a task as arduous as disconcerting.

Don Tillman, Teacher of Genetics at the University, A man trapped in a vision of extremely rigid reality, He has never had a second appointment with a woman. Nevertheless, knowledgeable of studies that show that men living as a couple are happier than single, It embarks fully on what baptizes the wife project, whose first step is to write a sixteen pages questionnaire to find the perfect couple: A punctual woman, that does not smoke or drink and adapt to its regulated existence. And then meet Rosie Jarman, What is a beautiful woman, Capable and fighter, But work in a bar, riches, bebe, And always late: Totally discarded for the wife project! She has its own project, find his biological father, And our eccentric teacher will find himself inventing excuses daily and skipping his strict rules in order to see her and help her by putting her knowledge of genetics at the service of her cause. Don and Rosie thus throw themselves into an intrepid, hilarious adventure that shows that love is not sought but goes to us when we least expect it.

 

Graeme Simsion He was born in New Zealand and currently resides in Melbourne. After a successful career in the field of computer science, en 1999 He sold his company and decided to write full time. Since then he has published brief narrations, plays and has produced some shorts from their own scripts. Originally conceived as a film script - with which he obtained the AWG/ INTECTION Award for the best romantic comedy script—, The wife project, Simsion's first novel, It became a sales phenomenon in Australia, And even before being published, he had already been granted the Victorian Premier’s Unpublished Manuscript Award (Unpublished manuscript award). The novel will be edited in more than thirty languages.

 

Reading Club Santa Eulalia

The wife project

Graeme Simsion

Tuesday, 2 de noviembre de 2021

20:30 horas

4ª plant of the Culture Room

C / Sant Jaume, 72

Santa Eulalia

 

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