Please note: Due to a closed conference taking place at the Amerikahaus, our current exhibition "Floridas – Photography by Anastasia Samoylova" will not be open to visitors from Wednesday, April 3, 2024, through Sunday, April 7, 2024. Thank you very much for your understanding.

Cover of "Let the Great World Spin" ©Amerikahaus München

"Let the Great World Spin" by Colum McCann

Wednesday, July 6, 2022, 6 p.m.

In the dawning light of a late-summer morning, the people of lower Manhattan stand hushed, staring up in disbelief at the Twin Towers. It is August 1974, and a mysterious tightrope walker is running, dancing, leaping between the towers, suspended a quarter mile above the ground. In the streets below, a slew of ordinary lives become extraordinary in bestselling novelist Colum McCann’s stunningly intricate portrait of a city and its people. Winner of the National Book Award in 2009, Let the Great World Spin is a dazzlingly rich vision of the passion, pain, and promise of New York City in the 1970s.

Want to read this month’s Literary Circle book choice and enjoy using an e-reader? You can download Let the Great World Spin for free when you join our eBook Club! See here for more information about the eBook-Club and how to sign up and access hundreds of gratis books and audiobooks!

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Photo: Cover of "Let the Great World Spin" ©Amerikahaus München

Please note the change of delivery and venue:
This event will now take place at the Amerikahaus and not online—we will meet in the well-ventilated conference room on the ground floor. The room is accessible via stairs or elevator.

Attendees must furbish proof of full vaccination against COVID-19, which will be checked by the Amerikahaus Literary Circle advisor, who has set this policy, which differs somewhat from the Amerikahaus policy for visitors.