# Event Details - **Event Name**: THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE BOOK CLUB at Books Inc. Alameda - **Event Start and End Date**: Tue, 26 May, 2026 at 06:30 pm – Tue, 26 May, 2026 at 07:30 pm (-07:00) - **Event Description**: Join our book club to discuss The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga TokarszukAbout this EventJoin us this month for the Invention of Solitude Fiction Book Club.This month we will discuss, The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarszuk.Please join us.Critically acclaimed, award-winning author Olga Tokarczuk delivers a chilling story of a facility for tuberculosis patients — along with existential questions that are just as unnerving. This is a new parable that speaks to our times, like Blindness by Jose Samarago. AN INSTANT NATIONAL BESTSELLER! A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK OF THE YEAR “A folk horror story with a deceptively light and knowing tone … elegant and genuinely unsettling.” –The New York Times Book Review The Nobel Prize winner’s latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.September 1913. A young Pole suffering from tuberculosis arrives at Wilhelm Opitz’s Guesthouse for Gentlemen in the village of Görbersdorf, a health resort in the Silesian mountains. Every evening the residents gather to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur and debate the great issues of the day: Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women born inferior? War or peace? Meanwhile, disturbing things are happening in the guesthouse and the surrounding hills. Someone—or something—seems to be watching, attempting to infiltrate this cloistered world. Little does the newcomer realize, as he tries to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target. A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Olga Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, with signature boldness, inventiveness, humor, and bravura. Olga Tokarczuk is the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker International Prize, among many other honors. She is the author of more than a dozen works of fiction, two collections of essays, and a children's book; her work has been translated into more than fifty languages. - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/alameda/the-invention-of-solitude-book-club-at-books-inc-alameda/100001988645006748 - **Event Categories**: art, literary-art, health-wellness - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 - **Event Highlights**: - Duration: 1 hour - Location: Books Inc. - Languages: English ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: Alameda - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Books Inc. - **lat**: 37.7636216 - **long**: -122.2431485 - **full address**: Books Inc., 1344 Park Street, Alameda, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: THE INVENTION OF SOLITUDE BOOK CLUB at Books Inc. 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