International Showcase – $20

Featuring Francesca Melandri, Alexander Maksik, Anna Smaill & Charlotte Wood
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16 OCT 2016
1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
GLENBOW MUSEUM THEATRE, 130 9TH AVE SE
[gdlr_space height="20px"] We scoured the world for the tastiest writers, assembling a global sampler. Prize-winning Italian phenom Francesca Melandri presents the English translations of her bestselling first novel, Eva Sleeps. Anna Smaill from New Zealand presents The Chimes, which was longlisted for the 2015 Man Booker Prize. Winner of the 2015 Pushcart Prize, New York City's Alexander Maksik presents his third novel, Shelter in Place. Rounding off the sampler is the Australian novelist Charlotte Wood who presents, The Natural Way of Things, which is currently being adapted to film. This event is hosted by Angie Abdou. [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ]

Featured Books

Eva Sleeps by Francesca Melandri

Out of the conflicts in the border regions of Northern Italy comes a sweeping family epic that embodies the history of nations. Eva, a forty-year-old public relations professional, receives an unexpected message from southern Italy. Vito, one of her mother’s lovers and the closest thing to a father she has ever known, is dying and would like to see her one last time. Her journey to him evokes memories of her childhood, of the rich history of her region’s struggle for independence and of Gerda, her mother — a beautiful, sensuous woman with a gift for love and for creating sumptuous dishes.

Shelter in Place by Alexander Maksik

Set in the Pacific Northwest in the jittery, jacked-up early 1990s, Shelter in Place is a stylish literary novel about the hereditary nature of mental illness, the fleeting intensity of youth, the obligations of family and the dramatic consequences of love. Joseph March, a 21-year-old working class kid from Seattle, has just graduated college. He has fallen in love with the fiercely independent Tess Wolff, and his future beckons, unencumbered, limitless and magnificent. Joe’s life implodes when he starts to suffer the symptoms of bipolar disorder, and, not long after, his mother kills a man she’s never met with a hammer. Later, spurred on by his mother’s example and her growing fame, Tess enlists Joe in a secret, violent plan that will forever change their lives.

The Chimes by Anna Small

The Chimes is a novel about what might happen if the written word were replaced with music. After the end of a brutal civil war, the written language has been banned, and life is orchestrated by a vast musical instrument that renders people unable to form new memories. The past is a mystery. Each new day feels the same as the last, and recalling anything that existed before is blasphemy. Adrift in this reimagined world is Simon, a young orphan who embarks on a journey from his farmland home to London with a sense that he must fulfil a forgotten promise – to find someone. Along the way, he meets a charismatic young man named Lucien. As a budding romance forms, they realize that slowly, inexplicably, Simon is beginning to remember. Together, they learn that nothing they ever believed about their world is true.

The Natural Way of Things by Charlotte Wood

Charlotte Wood masterfully renders a dystopian world where women who have dared to speak out are silenced and shackled by a cruel system of corporate control and misogyny. Two women awaken from a drugged sleep to find themselves imprisoned in a broken-down property in the middle of a desert. Strangers to each other, they have no idea where they are or how they came to be there with eight other girls, guarded by two inept yet vicious armed jailers and a "nurse". Doing hard labour under a sweltering sun, the prisoners soon learn what links them: in each girl's past is a sexual scandal with a powerful man. [gdlr_divider type="solid" size="100%" ] [gdlr_button href="https://www.artscommons.ca/WhatsOn/ShowDetails.aspx?show_id=EB608BFD-09B6-4AA1-9622-506B9F4B35B3" target="_self" size="medium" background="#358CCB" color="#ffffff" border_color="#999999"]Buy Tickets[/gdlr_button]
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Featuring

Charlotte Wood
Anna Smaill
Francesca Melandri
Alexander Maksik

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