- 7:30 PM
- October 29, 2011
- Trinity College School, Levan Hall
- Port Hope
- Cost: $10
Location information
Trinity College School, Levan Hall
55 Deblaquire Street North
Port Hope D9G 2K6
Join us for readings by Anita Rau Badami, Rana Dasgupta, Lev Grossman and Helen Oyeyemi.
Anita Rau Badami presents Tell it to the Trees, an intense mystery and heart-rending story of an Indian family in small town British Columbia.
Rana Dasgupta presents his 2010 Commonwealth Prize-winning novel, Solo, a devastating and rapturous novel about the life and daydreams of Ulrich, a reclusive 100 year-old man from Bulgaria.
Helen Oyeyemi’s latest work, Mr. Fox, is a magical novel about a writer whose imaginary muse conjures herself one sunny afternoon and confronts him about his dark denouements, leaving his wife suspicious that he is having an affair.
Emma Ruby-Sachs presents her debut, The Water Man’s Daughter, a novel that marries a page-turning plot with the stories of three women, each of whom is struggling with decisions that will change the course of their lives.
Participants
Anita Rau Badami
Anita Rau Badami (Canada/India) is the author of the bestselling novels Tamarind Mem and The Hero’s Walk, which won the Regional Commonwealth Writers’ Prize and Italy’s Premio Berto. Her third novel, Can You Hear the Nightbird Call?, was long listed [...]
Rana Dasgupta
Rana Dasgupta (India/UK) grew up in Cambridge, England and worked for a marketing consultancy in London and New York before moving to Delhi, India to write. His first novel, Tokyo Cancelled, was shortlisted for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize in [...]
Helen Oyeyemi
Helen Oyeyemi (UK) was born in Nigeria in 1984 and moved to London when she was four. She completed her first novel, The Icarus Girl, just before her 19th birthday and has published two more novels, The Opposite House and [...]
Emma Ruby-Sachs
Emma Ruby-Sachs’ (Canada) journalism has been published in the Nation and Huffington Post. A graduate of the University of Toronto law school, she lived in South Africa for periods while studying and has worked as a civil litigator in Windsor [...]