Join us for discussion with award winning short-story writer and essayist Heather O&rsquo\;Neill as she discusses her newest release Th e \;Capital of Dreams.
\nAward winning author\ , Catherine Leroux will be moderating and interviewing for the discussion.
\nPresented in partnership with Words Worth Books \;in cele bration of 40 years.
\nAbout The Capital of Dreams< /strong>
\nSofia Bottom lives in a small country that Europe has for gotten. But inside its borders\, the old myths of trees that come alive an d faeries who live among their roots have given way to an explosion of the arts and the consolations of philosophy. No one\, from the clarinettists to the cabaret singers\, is as revered in the arts as Sofia's brilliant mo ther\, the writer Clara Bottom. How can 14 year old Sofia\, with a tin ear and an enduring love of the old myths\, ever hope to win her mother's lov e?
\nWhen the country's greatest enemy invades\, and the Capital is under threat\, at last Clara turns to her daughter. Sofia must smuggle her new manuscript to safety on the last train evacuating children from the c ity. But the train draws to a suspicious halt in the middle of a forest\, and Sofia must run for her life\, losing her mother's most prized possessi on. Now frightened and alone in a country at war\, Sofia must find a way t o reclaim what she has lost. On an epic journey through woods and razed to wns\, colliding with soldiers\, survivors and other lost children\, Sofia must make the choice between kindness and survival.
\nIn a stunning dark fairytale of a novel\, Heather O'Neill reveals once again that she is a master of language that is as delicious as cake and serious as a gunsho t.
\nAbout Heather O&rsquo\;Neill
\nHEATHER O 'NEILL is a novelist\, short-story writer and essayist. Her most recent no vel\, When We Lost Ou r Heads \;was a #1 national bestseller and was a finalist for the Grand Prix du Livre de Montré\;al. Her previous works include < a href="https://wpl-kitch.ca.iiivega.com/search/card?id=296b4b51-b5d9-53b2 -9629-7fed5dfd7d80&\;entityType=FormatGroup">The Lonely Hearts Hote l\, which won the Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize for Fiction and was longlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction and CBC's Canada Reads\, as well as Lullabies for Little Criminals\, The Girl Who Was Saturday Night& nbsp\;and Daydreams o f Angels\, which were shortlisted for the Governor General's Lite rary Award for Fiction\, the Orange Prize for Fiction and the Scotiabank G iller Prize two years in a row. She has won CBC's Canada Reads and the Dan uta Gleed Award. Born and raised in Montreal\, O'Neill lives there today.< /p>\n
About Catherine Leroux
\nCatherine Leroux i s Qué\;bec novelist\, translator and editor born in 1979. Her debut novel \;La marche en forê\;t \;was published in 2011 . \;Two years later\, Le mur mitoyen \;won the France-Que bec Prize and its English version\, \;The Party Wall\, was nominated for the 2016 Scotiabank Giller Prize. The Future (L&rsquo\;avenir in French)\, won the 2024 edition of Canada Reads. Her latest novel\, Peuple de verre\, is a specu lative fiction about the housing crisis. As a translator\, Catherine has b rought the works of Sean Michaels\, Andrew Kaufman and (soon) Sarah Bernst ein into French\, and won the 2019 Governor general award for her translat ion of Do Not Say We Have Nothing by Madeleine Thien. She lives i n Montreal with her two children.
\nProgrammer: \; Nancy
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