A CONVERSATION WITH EVA MENASSE:
M2, GRAND PARADE, UNIVERSITY OF BRIGHTON, 24th of MARCH, 17.30-19.30
Join CAPONEU for an evening with Eva Menasse author of Darkenbloom. This novel explores the politics of memory, of buried secrets, of Austrian identity and of the Nazi genocide. Meet the author for a conversation about the politics of novel writing at a time of horror in Gaza, Ukraine, the Congo and across the globe. Renowned Austrian novelist Eva Menasse has published several bestselling novels, short story and essay collections. Her accolades include the Heinrich Böll Prize, the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize, the Jonathan Swift Prize, the Austrian Book Prize, the Ludwig Börne Prize, and a fellowship at Villa Massimo in Rome. Her widely translated books have sold 500,000 copies.
Darkenbloom is truly one of the great European novels of our time, one that sets standards for how fiction can treat history.’
(Daniel Kehlmann, author of Tyll)
Darkenbloom is a sweeping novel of exiled counts, Nazis turned Soviet enforcers, secret marriages, mislabelled graves, remembrance, guilt and the devastating power of silence, by one of Austria’s most significant contemporary writers.
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21 March, 2025 at 2:31 pm
Thank you the book is Darkenbloom could you amend