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Malaprop's presents Elizabeth Kostova in conversation with Ron Rash for the launch of The Shadow Land
Elizabeth Kostova, best selling author of The Historian and The Swan Thieves, launches her latest novel The Shadow Land on April 11, 2017 and you are invited to her party!
Ron Rash will join Elizabeth on stage at UNCA's Humanities Lecture Hall for this not-to-be-missed literary event with two of the region's most beloved best-selling authors. Co-sponsored by the Great Smokies Writing Program.
Ron Rash is the author of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner finalist and New York Times bestseller Serena and Above the Waterfall, in addition to four prizewinning novels, including The Cove, One Foot in Eden, Saints at the River, and The World Made Straight; four collections of poems; and six collections of stories, among them Burning Bright, which won the 2010 Frank OConnor International Short Story Award, and Chemistry and Other Stories, which was a finalist for the 2007 PEN/Faulkner Award. Twice the recipient of the O. Henry Prize, he teaches at Western Carolina University.
Now a bit about the book!:
A young American woman, Alexandra Boyd, has traveled to Sofia, Bulgaria, hoping that life abroad will salve the wounds left by the loss of her beloved brother. Soon after arriving in this elegant East European city, however, she helps an elderly couple into a taxi and realizes too late that she has accidentally kept one of their bags. Inside she finds an ornately carved wooden box engraved with a name: Stoyan Lazarov. Raising the hinged lid, she discovers that she is holding an urn filled with human ashes.
As Alexandra sets out to locate the family and return this precious item, she will first have to uncover the secrets of a talented musician who was shattered by political oppression and she will find out all too quickly that this knowledge is fraught with its own danger.
Elizabeth Kostova's new novel is a tale of immense scope that delves into the horrors of a century and traverses the culture and landscape of this mysterious country. Suspenseful and beautifully written, it explores the power of stories, the pull of the past, and the hope and meaning that can sometimes be found in the aftermath of loss.
All tickets include a signed copy of The Shadow Land, hot off the press on event day.
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LocationHumanities Lecture Hall at UNCA (View)
UNCA
Asheville, NC 28804
United States
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