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Massey University Press and Scorpio Books warmly welcome you to an author talk starring Lloyd Jones, author of The Beaded Curtain, with Kate De Goldi.Part autobiography, part memoir, part quest, lauded writer Lloyd Jones’s The Beaded Curtain is a trenchant exploration of the artist as witness.
The text gets about from Jones’s Lower Hutt childhood and youthful wanderings across the USA to formative experiences such as seeing clothes from Hiroshima and his encounters with the Jewish Memorial in Berlin. From the hills of the Wairarapa to Hiroshima and Waiheke Island, he looks at examples of mavericks, in his own family and in those of poets and conscientious objectors.
He is, throughout, daringly innovative, the text folding one event inside another. With language so precise and at times so coruscating that it may have been cut from stone, and with a candour and humanity that draws the reader deep into Jones’s preoccupations and memories, The Beaded Curtain challenges, rails and mourns as he grapples with the past. Elegant and searing, tender and angry, it holds the reader in its steady, accomplished, clear-eyed grip.
All welcome, this is a free event. Refreshments provided from 5.30pm for a 6pm start. Please send in your RSVP.
About the book
‘A beaded curtain shifts and clatters in the doorway of Lloyd Jones’ mind, filtering early life, explorations, hauntings, and the terrible violences — domestic and global — that we too quickly turn from. This compelling narrative testifies to a writer’s vital work: paying attention and asking we do the same.’ — Kate De Goldi
About the author
Lloyd Jones is the author of twelve novels. Mister Pip was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize and won the Commonwealth Writer’s Prize, and Hand Me Down World was shortlisted for the Berlin International Literary Prize. He has won the Prime Minister’s Award for Literature, is an Arts Foundation Laureate and the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Literature from Victoria University. His writing has been translated into many languages.
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Scorpio Books, Five Lanes at the BNZ Centre. 120 Hereford St,Christchurch, New Zealand
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