An Evening of Readings and Conversation with EDUARDO GALEANO and ARUNDHATI ROY
Hi all...in lieu of our conversation at our last book club meeting, I thought this evening of readings may be interesting! I will be out of town, otherwise I would have loved to have gone!An Evening of Readings and Conversation with
EDUARDO GALEANO and ARUNDHATI ROY
Presented by the Center for Economic Research and Social Change
Sunday, May 21, 2006
7:00 pm
The Town Hall
123 West 43rd Street, New York
Between 6th Avenue & Broadway
Doors open at 6:15 pm
Eduardo Galeano, one of Latin America's most admired writers, and Arundhati Roy, who won the Booker Prize in 1997 for her first novel, The God of Small Things, in a rare joint appearance for an evening of readings and conversation.
Galeano and Roy are both recipients of the Lannan Prize for Cultural Freedom, in 1998 and 2002 respectively. Voices of Time: A Life in Stories (Metropolitan Books) is Galeano's latest book and he is also the author of the Memory of Fire trilogy (for which he won the 1989 American Book Award) and Open Veins of Latin America. He lives in Montevideo, Uruguay. In addition to her novel, Roy has also published several collections of essays, including Power Politics, War Talk and most recently, An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire, all from South End Press. She lives in New Delhi, India.
TICKETS
All seats $15.00
Tickets on sale in person at the Town Hall Box Office at 123 West 43rd Street, open 12 noon to 6:00 pm Monday through Saturday. Cash and credit cards accepted. All sales $1.50 fee. More info at: http://www.the-townhall-nyc.org or call 212.840.2824. Or buy tickets online at http://www.ticketmaster.com.
Pre-signed copies of books by Eduardo Galeano, including his new book, Voices of Time: A Life in Stories (Metropolitan Books), and by Arundhati Roy, including An Ordinary Person's Guide to Empire (South End Press), will be available at The Town Hall before and after the event.
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