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SUMMARY:European Voices: A Reading & Conversation with Christos Ikonomou
DESCRIPTION:Christos Ikonomou will read from and discuss his short story collection\, Something Will Happen You’ll See. \n  \n \nIkonomou’s stories convey the plight of those worst affected by the Greek economic crisis– laid-off workers\, hungry children. In the urban sprawl between Athens and Piraeus\, the narratives roam restlessly through the impoverished working-class quarters located off the tourist routes…In Ikonomou’s concrete streets\, the rain is always looming\, the politicians’ slogans are ignored\, and the police remain a violent\, threatening presence offstage. Yet even at the edge of destitution\, his men and women act for themselves\, trying to preserve what little solidarity remains in a deeply atomized society\, and in one way or another finding their own voice. There is faith here\, deep faith– though little or none in those who habitually ask for it. \n  \n \n  \nChristos Ikonomou was born in 1970. He has published two collections of short stories\, The Woman On the Rails (2003)\, and Something Will Happen\, You’ll See (2010). Something Will Happen\, You’ll See won the prestigious Best Short Story Collection State Award and became the most reviewed Greek book of 2011.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/european-voices-a-reading-conversation-with-christos-ikonomou/
LOCATION:Boston University Castle\, 225 Bay State Road\, Boston\, MA\, 02215\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lusophone Voices: A Reading & Conversation with José Eduardo Agualusa
DESCRIPTION:José Eduardo Agualusa will read from and discuss his book\, A General Theory of Oblivion. \n  \n \n  \nOn the eve of Angolan independence\, an agoraphobic woman named Ludo bricks herself into her Luandan apartment for 30 years\, living off vegetables and the pigeons she lures in with diamonds\, burning her furniture and books to stay alive and writing her story on the apartment’s walls. \nAlmost as if we’re eavesdropping\, the history of Angola unfolds through the stories of those she sees from her window. \n  \n José Eduardo Agualusa (born 1960) is an Angolan writer. He studied agronomy and forestry in Lisbon before starting his writing career as a poet. His novel Creole was awarded the Portuguese Grand Prize for Literature\, and he recently received the U.K.’s Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the U.K. for The Book of Chameleons. He lives in Luanda and Lisbon.
URL:https://archipelagobooks.org/event/lusophone-voices-a-reading-conversation-with-jose-eduardo-agualusa/
LOCATION:Boston University Castle\, 225 Bay State Road\, Boston\, MA\, 02215\, United States
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