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Harvard Book Store Presents...
Graywolf Press
Price: $16.00
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ASKOLD MELNYCZUK reads from The House of Widows: A Novel
Harvard Book Store is pleased to welcome award-winning author ASKOLD MELNYCZUK for a reading and discussion of his latest novel. His father’s British military uniform, an oversize glass jar, and a letter written in a language he can’t read: these are the only things James kept of his inheritance after his father’s untimely death. They become the keys to unlocking the door on a past James never imagined while growing up amid the security of Boston’s north shore, and they send him on an odyssey across England, Austria, and Ukraine. Along the way, he meets his dying aunt Vera, the matriarch of a mysterious branch of the family. His mission puts him face-to-face with the international sex trade, a displaced Palestinian girl with streaked pink hair and attitude to spare, and a violent world in which he is ultimately implicated. From old America, new Europe, and the timeless Middle East, James learns what it means to live in the webbed world of the twenty-first century. In The House of Widows, Melnyczuk offers a searing exploration of the individual’s role in the inexorable assault of history. “Brisk, lyrical writing and a winning narrator make The House of Widows irresistible. A son’s quest to understand his father’s suicide, and so to excavate a family history extinguished by the exigencies of the new world, make it exceptional.” -Jhumpa Lahiri (Interpreter of Maladies)
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CONTACT:
General Info:
617.661.1515
Media:
617.661.1424 ex.1
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| DATE: |
Tuesday, March 11th |
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7:00 PM |
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Harvard Book Store
1256 Massachusetts Avenue
Cambridge |
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This event is free; no tickets are required |
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Askold Melnyczuk’s novel Ambassador of the Dead was one of The Los Angeles Times Best Books of 2002; his first novel, What Is Told, was a New York Times Notable Book. He has published a novella, Blind Angel, about the life of Rimbaud and has received a Lila Wallace Writer’s Award and the McGinnis Prize in fiction. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Gettysburg Review, The LA Times, Ploughshares, The Antioch Review, and The Nation. Mr. Melnyczuk has taught at Harvard University and currently teaches at the University of Massachusetts-Boston and in the Bennington Graduate Writing Seminars.
Photo credit: Laura Paz.
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