Os membros EUNIC Toronto têm o prazer de anunciar a série de European Book Club de 2016, “In Other Words” na livraria Type Books.
In Other Words incidirá sobre autores que tenham migrado e adaptado a um país diferente, escrevendo na língua do país de acolhimento. O objetivo deste tema é de apresentar livros e autores europeus aos Canadianos, ligando culturas e permitindo que iniciem numa descoberta de autores europeus contemprâneos e das suas obras .
24 fevereiro 2016: Goethe-Institut / Who is Martha? Marjana Gaponenko
ABOUT WHO IS MARTHA? BY MARJANA GAPONENKO
In this rollicking novel, 96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha Aû the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons Aû died. Levadski himself has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn’t have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days. This gloriously written tale, in which Levadski feels ‘his heart pounding at the portals of his brain,’ mixes piquant wit with lofty musings about life, friendship, aging, and death.
In this rollicking novel, 96-year-old ornithologist Luka Levadski foregoes treatment for lung cancer and moves from Ukraine to Vienna to make a grand exit in a luxury suite at the Hotel Imperial. He reflects on his past while indulging in Viennese cakes and savoring music in a gilded concert hall. Levadski was born in 1914, the same year that Martha Aû the last of the now-extinct passenger pigeons Aû died. Levadski himself has an acute sense of being the last of a species. He may have devoted much of his existence to studying birds, but now he befriends a hotel butler and another elderly guest, who also doesn’t have much time left, to share in the lively escapades of his final days. This gloriously written tale, in which Levadski feels ‘his heart pounding at the portals of his brain,’ mixes piquant wit with lofty musings about life, friendship, aging, and death.
Marjana Gaponenko was born in 1981 in Odessa, Ukraine. She fell in love with the German language as a young girl, and began writing in German when she was sixteen. She now lives in Vienna and Mainz.