Two International Booker Prize winners, two novels about social change: in »Our City that Year« [tr. Daisy Rockwell], Geetanjali Shree processes the destruction of a mosque in Ayodhya, India, by religious extremists in 1992 to create a polyphonic portrait of a fractured society. In »Celestial Bodies« [tr. Marilyn Booth], Jokha Alharthi tells of the lives of three sisters in the Omani village of al-Awafi – caught between tradition and the dawn of a new order.
In cooperation with Das Blaue Sofa Bertelsmann
With Geetanjali Shree, Jokha Alharthi (participates remotely)
Moderated by Marie Kaiser
The event will be held in English.