About this Event
On Sunday 17th May, we’re excited to be hosting International Booker Prize nominee, Ana Paula Maia, in our unique space...
...housed up on the mezzanine level of forty year old social enterprise, Camden Garden Centre. Join us to welcome Ana Paula Maia as she signs her highly lauded book, On Earth as it is Beneath, just two days ahead of the announcement of the winner, to be held at a ceremony at Tate Modern.
Copies of the book will be available on the day but can be pre-ordered here at a special event price of £10.
As you may imagine, Ana Paula Maia has many commitments and a tight schedule at this point and so we kindly ask that you arrive in good time as we will end promptly at 2.30pm. By the same token, we advise booking a ticket and pre-ordering your book as priority will be given to those that have done so.
Our space is home to not only books but also our restaurant, which will be serving as usual from 11am and throughout the event. If you would like to book a table to complete your visit with brunch or lunch, email us at [email protected]
Alternatively, simply take the opportunity to have your book signed and browse the space and its offerings.
Ana Paula Maia is author of On Earth As It Is Beneath', which has been shortlisted for this years International Booker Prize.
Lean, intense, and unforgettable, at just over 100 pages, Maia delivers a taut, propulsive narrative of dread and moral collapse, designed to be read in a single sitting.
With exceptional translation by Padma Viswanathan, which captures Maia’s raw, rhythmic prose with precision and force, reinforcing Charco’s reputation for outstanding literary fiction in translation.
Maia's novel Of Cattle and Men won the UK Republic of Consciousness Prize, the inaugural Cercador Prize for Literature in Translation in the United States, and an English PEN Translates Award. An award-winning Brazilian writer and scriptwriter, she is widely regarded as one of the most distinctive voices in contemporary Brazilian fiction.
On Earth As It Is Beneath
On land where enslaved people were once tortured and murdered, the state built a penal colony in the wilderness, where inmates could be rehabilitated, but never escape. Now, decades later, and having only succeeded in trapping men, not changing them for the better, its operations are winding down. But in the Pr*son’s waning days, a new horror is unleashed: every full-moon night, the inmates are released, the warden is armed with rifles, and the hunt begins. Every man plans his escape, not knowing if his end will come at the hands of a familiar face, or from the unknown dangers beyond the Pr*son walls.
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Pritchard & Ure, 2 Barker Drive, London, United Kingdom
GBP 0.00 to GBP 10.00
