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Wednesday October 4th
Author Conversation and Book Signing: Nicole Krauss with Aleksandar Hemon
7:30pm
At sixty-eight, Jules Epstein is undergoing a metamorphosis. In the wake of his parents' deaths, his divorce from his wife of more than thirty years, and his retirement from the New York legal firm where he was a partner, he's felt an irresistible need to give away his possessions, alarming his children and perplexing the executor of his estate. With the last of his wealth, he travels to Israel, with a nebulous plan to do something to honor his parents. In Tel Aviv, he is sidetracked by a charismatic American rabbi and the rabbi's beautiful daughter. But Epstein isn't the only seeker embarking on a journey. Leaving her family in Brooklyn, a young, well-known novelist arrives at the Tel Aviv Hilton where she has stayed every year since birth. Troubled by writer's block and a failing marriage, she hopes that the hotel can unlock a dimension of reality--and her own perception of life--that has been closed off to her. But when she meets a retired literature professor who proposes a project she can't turn down, she's drawn into a mystery that alters her life in ways she could never have imagined. Bursting with life and humor, Forest Dark is a profound, mesmerizing novel of metamorphosis and self-realization--of looking beyond all that is visible towards the infinite.
Nicole Krauss is the internationally bestselling author of three novels: Man Walks Into a Room, a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book of the Year; The History of Love, a New York Times bestseller and winner of the Saroyan Prize for International Literature; and Great House, a New York Times bestseller and finalist for the National Book Award. Her fiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harper's, Esquire and Best American Short Stories. Nicole Krauss lives in New York.
Aleksander Hemon's books include The Making of Zombie Wars, The Lazarus Project, a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award, and The Book of My Lives, among others. He lives in Chicago.
Event Website
Women & Children First Bookstore
5233 N Clark St
Chicago, IL 60640
(773) 769-9299
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