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Start: 7:00 pm
Co-presented with the WASHINGTON CENTER FOR THE BOOK AT THE SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY. Four years after Sara Gruen won readers near and far with her novel, Water for Elephants, she is back with her keenly anticipated new novel, Ape House (Spiegel & Grau). From a circus elephant, Sara Gruen here moves to the story of a family of bonobo apes. It is a family unlike—and like—many others, to surprising and engaging degrees. "Sara Gruen knows things—she knows them in her mind and in her heart. And, out of what she knows, she has created a true thriller that is addictive from its opening sentence. Devour it to find out what happens next, but also to learn remarkable and moving things about life on this planet. Very, very few novels can change the way you look at the world around you. This one does." - Robert Goolrick. "I read Ape House in one joyous breath. Ever an advocate for animals, Gruen brings them to life with the passion of a novelist and the accuracy of a scientist ... The novel is immaculately researched and lovingly crafted. If people fall in love with our forgotten, fascinating, endangered relative, it will be because of Ape House." - Vanessa Woods. Free admission is on a first-come, first serve basis. The Microsoft Auditorium of the Seattle Public Central Library is at 1000 Fourth Avenue (between Madison & Spring). $5 parking coupons for the Central Library garage are available on a limited basis for those attending. For more information, please call Elliott Bay at (206) 624-6600, The Seattle Public Library at (206) 386-4636, or see www.spl.org.
Start: 7:00 pm
One of the most notable European writers at work today, younger or otherwise, Daniel Kehlmann makes this welcome first Elliott Bay visit. Dividing his time between Vienna and Berlin, he is most known for his novel, Measuring the World, which was translated into more than forty languages. Recipient of numerous awards, including the Candide Prize, the Thomas Mann Prize, the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation, and more, he is here with the newly translated Fame: A Novel in Nine Episodes (Pantheon, translated by Carol Janeway). "[A] brilliant study of the fragility and interconnectedness of life ... Layers of connection, irony, despair, and humor distinguish this masterful work." - Publishers Weekly. "Who would have thought contemporary Central European literature could be so fun and so funny? Daniel Kehlmann is who. The young Austrian prodigy, famous everywhere but in the United States, has given us a real beauty of a book, farcical, satiric, melancholic, and humane. Modern fame may have been invented in America, but nobody has dramatized its paradoxes and heartbreaks more entertainingly than the European Kehlmann does here." - Jonathan Franzen.
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