The Portobello Road

Muriel Spark
Date: 04.02.2020
Time: 13.30 PM
Venue: IB Strategy Room (Manaviyat room above the LRC Silent Area)


Description:

The Portobello Road tells the story of four friends: Kathleen, Skinny, George and Needle. In her youth, Needle found a needle in a haystack, which is why she came to be known as Needle. From that day forward, Needle is considered ‘lucky’ by the other characters, although in fact haystacks are associated with injury and death for her: the needle she chances upon in the story’s first haystack drives deep into the cushion of her thumb creating a wound which bleeds copiously; Needle is suffocated with hay and her body buried in the second haystack. When her corpse is recovered, the headlines in the evening papers run ‘ “Needle” is found: in the haystack!’

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The Portobello Road

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