Award-winning authors Kath Jonathan and An n Y.K. Choi will discuss the creation of their latest novels\, The Resistanc e Painter and All Things Under the Moon. Both books tell the stories of women who\, during times of war\, choose to resist\, ultimately transf orming their own lives and the lives of those around them.
\nStop by the \;Woolf &am p\; Company (formerly Rookery Books) \;table to purchase titles by the authors and have them signed as a keepsake from this special event.\n
This event is funded in part by Veterans Affairs Canada.
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\nAbout Kath Jonathan
\nA resident of Toronto\, Kath Jonathan is a poetry\, short story\
, and novel writer. Her work has been shortlisted for the Marina Nemat Awa
rd\, a finalist for The Janice Colbert Poetry Award\, longlisted for the P
uritan&rsquo\;s Thomas Morton Memorial Prize for short story\, published i
n a Penguin Random House chapbook and in online literary magazines. Kath h
olds a Certificate in creative writing and an MA in English literature\, b
oth from the University of Toronto.
An evocative work of historical fiction\, examining the little-known st ory of Poland&rsquo\;s extraordinary WW ll resistance army and the contemp orary lives of two artists\, grandmother and granddaughter\, inextricably linked by a wartime betrayal.
\nWarsaw 1939. Irena Marianowska&rsquo \;s dreams of attending art school in Paris are crushed when the Nazis inv ade Poland. Instead\, she joins the Home Army and\, together with her resi stance cell\, risks her life guiding people to safety through the sewers o f Warsaw. In 1942\, after a harrowing mission\, she returns home to learn that her sister\, Lotka\, has been abducted by the Gestapo. In her search for Lotka\, Irena encounters a host of characters who lead her into greate r danger.
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About Ann Y.K. Choi
Pachinko meets Beasts of a Little Land in this stunning\, evocative tale\, set in 1920s Korea\, of one seemingly ordinary woman--an uneducated villager living under Japanese occupation--who takes control of her own d estiny and rises to become an advocate for women's literacy as a force for change.
\n"Women need other women to survive."
\nIn 1924\, Ko rea is an occupied country. In Seoul's secret\, underground networks and t hroughout the countryside\, rebellion against the Japanese Empire simmers\ , threatening to boil over. Kim Na-Young lives a simple life in the rural village of Daegeori\, where she watches the moon rise and set over the pin e-wooded mountains\, tends to her household alongside her best friend\, Ye on-Soo\, and cares for her sick mother.
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