About this Event
Event guidelines:
- Each ticket will include either a copy of the featured book or a $10 Books Are Magic gift card. Additional copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
- A book signing will follow the talk.
- Home address is collected for contact tracing purposes; it will not be used otherwise.
- The event will also be livestreamed for free here: https://youtube.com/live/YwloFfgKkrA
- As a reminder: If you are not feeling well, please do not come to the event, even if you have a ticket; email us and we'll work it out.
If you have any questions regarding these guidelines or to request accessibility accommodations, please contact [email protected].
A deeply personal debut novel that blends fiction, memoir, essay, and archival writing to explore the complexity of migration, the history of forced resettlement, and the weight of the colonial past.
Shifting between the intimate present and the archival past, New York City and the remote mountains of Negueira de Muñiz, Galician writer Brais Lamela’s award-winning debut novel follows a young scholar’s journey into the forgotten history of the Franco regime, uncovering both the past and the still-present afterlife of a forced resettlement project in the Galician countryside of the 1960s.
Brais Lamela was born in 1994 and lives between Galicia and New York. He is a writer and PhD candidate at Yale University. His debut novel, What Remains (published in Galician in 2022 as Ninguén Queda) became the first Galician-language book to ever win the prestigious Ojo Crítico Prize, and was a book of the year for El País. It has been translated into Spanish, Catalan, and English.
Jacob Rogers is a translator from Galician and Spanish. He has won grants from the National Endowment for the Arts and the PEN/Heim Translation Fund, and co-edited features of Galician literature for Words Without Borders, Asymptote, and The Spanish Riveter. His published and forthcoming full-length translations include work by Manuel Rivas, Berta Dávila, Brais Lamela, Xavier Queipo, and Antón Lopo.
Event venue & nearby stays
Books Are Magic Montague, 122 Montague Street, Brooklyn, United States
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