{"id":94047,"date":"2025-05-16T14:54:24","date_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:54:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/events-archive\/javier-zamora-solito-a-memoir\/"},"modified":"2025-05-16T14:54:24","modified_gmt":"2025-05-16T12:54:24","slug":"javier-zamora-solito-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"events-archive","link":"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/javier-zamora-solito-a-memoir\/","title":{"rendered":"Javier Zamora: Solito \u2013 A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Discussion, Reading, Q&#038;A<\/h2>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Javier Zamora is too young to go with his parents when they leave their small village in El Salvador for the United States. At nine years old, he is entrusted to a coyote who is meant to bring him safely to them \u2013 a dangerous journey that will take several months. Along the way, the group of unfamiliar adults he travels with becomes an unexpected kind of family. This autobiographical account is told from the perspective of a child forced \u2013 like millions of others \u2013 to leave their homeland. <\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em>Content Note: This book addresses displacement.<\/em><\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">With Javier Zamora<br\/>Moderated by Toby Ashraf<br\/>Read by Benito Bause<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The event will be held in English, with German reading passages.<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Grade 10 \u2013 12 | Booking Number 1903<\/p>\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u00bbSolito: Eine wahre Geschichte\u00ab (Solito: A Memoir) has been translated from English into German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"template":"","tags":[],"jct-program-properties":[],"jct-ilb-years":[906],"jct-program-categories":[619],"class_list":["post-94047","events-archive","type-events-archive","status-publish","hentry","jct-ilb-years-2024-en","jct-program-categories-kjl-en"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Javier Zamora: Solito \u2013 A Memoir &#8211; international literature festival berlin<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/literaturfestival.com\/en\/events-archive\/javier-zamora-solito-a-memoir\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Javier Zamora: Solito \u2013 A Memoir &#8211; international literature festival berlin\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Discussion, Reading, Q&#038;A Javier Zamora is too young to go with his parents when they leave their small village in El Salvador for the United States. 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