Monica Cantieni and Sunjeev Sahota (2015 Event)

Watch two authors who explore the immigrant experience powerfully
in their unforgettable new novels. Monica Cantieni’s The
Encyclopaedia of Good Reasons, translated by Donal McLaughlin,
tells the deeply moving story of a young girl’s long wait for
adoption into a Swiss family, and into a German-speaking
community. Sunjeev Sahota’s much-anticipated second novel, The
Year of the Runaways, describes the dreams and struggles of a
group of young Indian men searching for a new life in Sheffield.