"I am copying down from the beginning" with Jokha Alharthi & Geetanjali Shree
Two International Booker Prize winners, two novels about social change: In “Our City that Year” [trans: Daisy Rockwell], Geetanjali Shree processes the destruction of a mosque in Ayodhya, India, by religious extremists in 1992 to create a polyphonic portrait of a fractured society. In “Celestial Bodies” [trans: Marilyn Booth], Jokha Alharthi tells of the lives of three sisters in the Omani village of al-Awafi – caught between tradition and the dawn of a new order.
In cooperation with the international literature festival berlin (ilb)
Haus der Berliner Festspiele, Side Stage
Schaperstraße 24
10719 Berlin
Friday, September 19, 2025 | 08 - 8:15 p.m.
Language: English
