November Book Club - These Blazing Suns

Join us this month to discuss These Blazing Suns at our November book club! 

When: 26/11/26 18:00 start, doors open from 17:50

OR 28/11/26 10:00 start, doors open from 9:50

Where: 26a Crwys Road, CF24 4NL

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You can order the book here to pick up from the shop. 

Clear - £14.99

Book club discount, 10% off - £13.49

Tickets to the book club are free but we would like you to register so that we can keep track of numbers. As it is a free event we would appreciate if you bought the book from us as that allows us to keep running events like this. However if you have a copy already feel free to sign up for just a ticket.

If you would like to book a place but you already have the book you can do that here.

Once you have signed up we will send you an email confirmation (this is separate to the automatic email from Shopify to confirm payment). We will then send an email when the book is ready to pick up. This may be included in the initial email if we already have the stock.

Translated fiction book club runs every other month, the months in between we have a general book club. 

About the book:

A resonant coming-of-age novel, and a story of intergenerational struggle and societal change
Iro left his village to continue his studies in Abidjan. With his friends, Thierry, Malick, and Yeo, they form a happy, resourceful group, doing odd jobs around the neighbourhood. Of all of them, Iro is the most determined and ambitious.

But when his father dies everything is turned upside down, as he realises how little he knew about his life, his dreams, and his losses. Iro’s certainties collapse, and new, more complex truths emerge that will allow Iro and his friends to chart their path and find reconciliation and peace for themselves and their families.

A novel that questions the heritage of fathers, the ambition of sons, the divide between the villages and their laws and the freedoms and loneliness of the cities, Falle’s debut is the story of a young man who rises, emancipates himself, and finds his truth.

About the author:

Nincemon Fallé was born in eastern Cote D’Ivoire in 2002 and grew up between Bondoukou, Abidjan, Aboisso and Daloa. Today he lives in Abidjan, in the Yogoupon district. He wrote These Blazing Suns, his first novel while working in a printing shop. Nincemon means in Guéré: “The fire is not extinguished”.

About the translator:

Tina Kover is the translator of more than a dozen works of fiction and nonfiction, including Alexandre Dumas’s Georges, Benoît Peeters’s Hergé: Son of Tintin, and Anna Gavalda’s Life, Only Better. Her translations have twice been nominated for the IMPAC Dublin International Literary Award and she was the recipient in 2009 of a Literary Translation Fellowship from the U.S. National Endowment for the Arts. She lives in the northeast of England.

Accessibility:

We ask in our confirmation email if you have any access needs, we will do everything we can to accommodate them. If you would like to reach out before booking you can email us lily@bookspacecardiff.co.uk or use our contact form.

We are wheelchair accessible. We have a temporary ramp we can put out to get in over the small step and once inside the shop floor is even. If you want to find out more about how to get here, check out our about page.