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SUMMARY:Love and Illusion: Kazuo Ishiguro on Klara and the Sun
DESCRIPTION:When bestselling novelist Kazuro Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017\, the Nobel committee described him as having “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection in the world.” Now here’s your chance to ask this “poet of the unspoken” (New York Times) your questions about his vision\, writing life\, and his first novel since winning the Nobel. Reserve your spot now and get your copy of that novel\, Klara and the Sun (complete with a signed bookplate for the first 250 ticket-holders) as soon as it drops in March\, with plenty of time to drink it in before our live event. \nFrom Remains of the Day (“an almost perfect book\,” said The New Yorker‘s James Wood) to Never Let Me Go (deemed “a page-turner and a heartbreaker” by Entertainment Weekly)\, Ishiguro’s equal fluency with wildly imaginative surrealism and the delicate bonds of relationships has changed the literary world’s perception of what a novel can do. Klara and The Sun is no exception. Grounded in a futuristic milieu\, this “dazzling genre-bending work” (Publishers Weekly) sheds powerful beams of light on everything from environmental destruction to the secret sorrows of childhood\, through the adventures of “Artificial Friend” Klara\, a solar-powered humanlike robot designed to be a child’s companion. Ishiguro’s partner for this conversation is rising literary star Yaa Gyasi\, a PEN/Hemingway award winner for Homegoing\, whose newest novel\, 2020’s Transcendent Kingdom\, was called “a book of blazing brilliance” by The Washington Post. \nThese renowned authors come from two very different generations\, backgrounds\, and literary styles\, but they share an uncanny ability to lay bare the secrets of the human heart. And we can’t wait to share their unforgettable presence with you in this much-anticipated headlining event. \nEvent Details\nEach ticket includes private access to the event recording for 10 days following the live event. Signed copies are limited to the first 250 buyers of that ticket type and all copies will be shipped by Green Apple Books in San Francisco starting March 2. We can only accept book orders that ship within the United States.
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SUMMARY:When Everything Falls Apart\, How Does the Heart Survive? Orville Schell and Yiyun Li on China\, Tolstoy\, and the Power of Art\, with Adam Hochschild
DESCRIPTION:Orville Schell\, Adam Hochschild\, Yiyun Li\nIn a heartstopping scene from Orville Schell’s My Old Home\, trained musician Li Tongshu sits at his piano\, eyes closed\, playing “Jesu\, Joy of Man’s Desiring\,” as Red Guards storm his home. They’re there to arrest him as a bourgeois traitor\, but what they don’t know is that the legacy of Li’s music\, and the loyalty of his young son\, Little Li\, is not easily snuffed out.  A journalist and renowned expert on China\, Schell has penned his first novel\, drawing not only on his deep knowledge of Mao Zedong’s Cultural Revolution but on his conviction that art and love can outlive brutality. \nJoining him is MacArthur “genius” and award-winning writer Yiyun Li\, who came of age during the bloody Tiananmen Square crackdown\, emigrated to the U.S. at 23 as a young scientist\, and eventually took the literary world by storm with her fiction\, memoir and essays. Li regularly turned to reading Tolstoy for solace during tough times in her own life\, so in the early days of the pandemic she collaborated with A Public Space—the literary magazine\, publisher\, and academy—to lead a free virtual book club where thousands of people\, isolated under shelter-in-place\, read War and Peace together over three months. The project\, which garnered worldwide attention\, now has been made into a book\, Tolstoy Together\, a guided experience for past and new readers. \nThis “Writer to Writer” conversation—moderated by award-winning journalist\, historian\, and author Adam Hochschild\, a lifelong friend of Orville’s and a Russian-speaking Tolstoy fan—will explore how art truly can light a lamp in the dark. \nGet your Ticket\n\nSpecial opportunity \nWith a tax-deductible donation of $100 to the nonprofit Bay Area Book Festival\, you can get a special invitation to a virtual afterparty with the author(s)! In an intimate\, relaxed setting\, you’ll have a chance to ask that crucial question there wasn’t enough time for in the live event Q&A; get a sense of what makes these original thinkers tick as people; or just let a writer whose work you love know\, face to face\, how much it’s meant to you. \nRead more here
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