"You can't get romantic on a subway line!" (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} rakehell) wrote,@ 2006-02-24 03:24:00 |
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I'm going to see Kiran read at Elliott Bay Books next Wednesday. Let me know if you want to join me:
KIRAN DESAI & ALICE GREENWAY
Wednesday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m.
"March begins on a high note as Kiran Desai, who read here in 1998 for her acclaimed debut, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, makes this welcome return for her long-anticipated new novel, The Inheritance of Loss (Atlantic Monthly). 'This stunning second novel from Desai is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state...All of these characters struggle with their cultural identity and the forces of modernization while trying to maintain their emotional connection to one another. In this alternatively comic and contemplative novel, Desai deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism, and the blinding desire for a "'better life,'" when one person's wealth means another’s poverty.' - Publishers Weekly. Also here tonight, from Edinburgh, is Alice Greenway with her much-praised first novel, White Ghost Girls (Black Cat). 'Alice Greenway's white ghost girls are stunning characters and this novel is a stunning debut – ferocious, sensual, witty, elegantly wrought. The scene is Hong Kong in the summer of 1967, and the girls are expatriate teenagers navigating adolescence and violent political upheaval all at once.'" - Ward Just.
--http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/m
KIRAN DESAI & ALICE GREENWAY
Wednesday, March 1 at 7:30 p.m.
"March begins on a high note as Kiran Desai, who read here in 1998 for her acclaimed debut, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, makes this welcome return for her long-anticipated new novel, The Inheritance of Loss (Atlantic Monthly). 'This stunning second novel from Desai is set in mid-1980s India, on the cusp of the Nepalese movement for an independent state...All of these characters struggle with their cultural identity and the forces of modernization while trying to maintain their emotional connection to one another. In this alternatively comic and contemplative novel, Desai deftly shuttles between first and third worlds, illuminating the pain of exile, the ambiguities of post-colonialism, and the blinding desire for a "'better life,'" when one person's wealth means another’s poverty.' - Publishers Weekly. Also here tonight, from Edinburgh, is Alice Greenway with her much-praised first novel, White Ghost Girls (Black Cat). 'Alice Greenway's white ghost girls are stunning characters and this novel is a stunning debut – ferocious, sensual, witty, elegantly wrought. The scene is Hong Kong in the summer of 1967, and the girls are expatriate teenagers navigating adolescence and violent political upheaval all at once.'" - Ward Just.
--http://www.elliottbaybook.com/events/m
