Etgar Keret & Alain Mabanckou (2015 Event)

Hear two internationally acclaimed novelists who now turn their
hands to memoir. Etgar Keret was declared ‘a genius’ by the New
Yorker: The Seven Good Years, translated into English by Sondra
Silverston, Miriam Shlesinger, Jessica Cohen and Anthony Berris,
is his account of raising a son in Tel Aviv, while also losing
his father. Alain Mabanckou is francophone Africa’s best-loved
writer. He left Congo-Brazzaville when he was 22, and The Lights
of Pointe-Noire, translated by Helen Stevenson, is a moving
account of the enduring meaning of home – but also the town where
a million slaves were sold. The event was recorded live at the
Edinburgh International Book Festival.