June 2017
Angela Rodel and Susan Harris at Unabridged Bookstore
Join us for an evening of conversation between Angela Rodel, translator of Ivailo Petrov's Wolf Hunt, and Susan Harris, editorial director of Words Without Borders for what is sure to be a night lively and thoughtful discussion! Published in 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf Hunt was the first novel to portray the human cost of Communist policies on Bulgarian villagers, forced by the government to abandon their land and traditional way of life. Darkly…
Find out more »Angela Rodel in conversation with Susan Harris in Chicago
Please join us at Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago for a conversation between Angela Rodel, translator of Ivailo Petrov's Wolf Hunt, and Susan Harris. Published in 1986, three years before the fall of the Berlin Wall, Wolf Hunt was the first novel to portray the human cost of Communist policies on Bulgarian villagers, forced by the government to abandon their land and traditional way of life. Darkly comic and tragic, the novel centers on an ill-fated winter hunting expedition of six…
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An Evening with Héctor Abad and Don Share
Colombian novelist, essayist, journalist, and editor Héctor Abad visits Unabridged Bookstore in Chicago to discuss his novel The Farm with Don Share, poet, translator, and editor of Poetry. A Q&A and book signing will follow the discussion. Héctor Abad is one of Colombia’s leading writers. Born in 1958, he grew up in Medellín, where he studied medicine, philosophy and journalism. In 1987, his father was murdered by Colombian paramilitaries, an event he reflected on 20 years later in Oblivion: A Memoir…
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