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August Global Book Cafe
AUGUST GLOBAL BOOK CAFE:
NIGHT ON THE GALACTIC RAILROAD
by Kenji Miyazawa
Saturday, August 26th, 2023
7:00 – 9:30 am Jakarta | 8:00 – 10:30 am Beijing
9:00 am – 11:30 pm Tokyo | 10 am – 12:30 pm in Sydney
12 – 2:30 pm in Wellington, New Zealand
Friday, August 25th 5:00 – 7:30 pm Pacific Daylight Time
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Fee: Sliding Scale $0 – $20
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This World Café Live! is for everyone.
(Always Free for Community Table subscribers.
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“Milky Way Station! Milky Way Station!”
We would like to share a ticket to limitless imagination with you, to go on a journey with Giovanni and the ensemble in Kenji Miyazawa’s “Night on the Milky Way Train”, for our second Global Book Café on August 26, 2023 in Asia-Pacific time zones. This masterpiece novella, published posthumously in 1943, is one of Japan’s greatest classics, akin in Japan to Charlotte’s Web in the English-speaking world. We invite you to join this Global Book Café and listen together to each of our “Night on the Milky Way Train” experiences; where that journey took you, and where it inspired you to go next.
Original title in Japanese:
銀河鉄道の夜 “Ginga Tetsudou no Yoru”
Translations in English: “Night on the Milky Way Train” (translated by Roger Pulver); other translated English titles include “Night on the Galactic Railroad” and “The Milky Way Railroad”.