BULGARIAN LAUNCH presentation of The Shadow Land
Peroto Literary Club at the National Palace of Culture
Moderator Dimiter Kenarov.
Presentation of The Shadow Land
Moderator Vladimir Levchev.
Presentation of The Shadow Land
Moderator Svetlozar Zhelev.
Presentation of The Shadow Land.
Moderator Svetlozar Zhelev.
When the mood of your country shifts, how far is too far? Critically acclaimed, Booker Prize shortlisted novelist, Rachel Seiffert, (The Dark Room, Afterwards, The Walk Home) investigates ordinary lives in extraordinary times. Her sparse, deft A Boy in Winter sees a young Ukrainian man choosing between resistance or collaboration under Nazi occupation. Elizabeth Kostova explores similar territory in The Shadow Land, a quietly captivating story, about family, grief, and a nation still coming to terms with itself, spanning the history of Bulgaria. Kostova’s 2005 debut The Historian, was a New York Times No.1 bestseller and a Richard & Judy Summer Read.
Elizabeth Kostova will be appearing live on BBC Radio Scotland, interviewed by Janice Forsyth
Presentation of The Shadow Land with Kapka Kassabova.
From Elizabeth Kostova, the million copy #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Historian, a novel that blends history and the present in a suspenseful journey that spans three generations and reveals the dark secrets of a family’s—and a nation’s—history.
Why is art important to everyday life? Elizabeth Kostova (The Shadow Land) and winner of the 2017 Stella Prize Heather Rose (The Museum of Modern Love) discuss the significance of art in their novels, as well as how the Balkan region informs their work.
$22/$19
Tickets go on sale at 9am Friday 21 July. This session is able to be booked on a Festival Pass.
The Shadow Land takes us to politically-charged Bulgaria, where a mourning sister makes a startling discovery against a historically rich landscape. Join bestselling author Elizabeth Kostova (The Historian) as she discusses finding hope in the aftermath of loss.
$22/$19
Tickets go on sale at 9am Friday 21 July. This session is able to be booked on a Festival Pass.
Supported by The Stella Prize
Elizabeth Kostova’s new novel The Shadow Land delves into the horrors of a century and traverses the culture and landscape of this mysterious country, exploring the power of stories and the hope and meaning in the aftermath of loss.
Tickets: Adult $24.00; Concession $21.95; Junior $11.75
Literary Luncheon with Elizabeth Kostova
Join Elizabeth Kostova at a fabulous literary lunch to discuss her new book The Shadow Land.
2 Course Lunch includes a glass of wine on arrival. Finish times are a guide. Bookings are required.
Member: $40 / Guests: $45
To book your ticket call: (07) 3884 3000 or email functions@gvh.com.au
Join Elizabeth Kostova in conversation with Venero Armannno at Brisbane Square Library to discuss her new book The Shadow Land.
Join Elizabeth Kostova in conversation with Morin Rout at Scorpio Bookshop to discuss her new book The Shadow Land.
Join Elizabeth Kostova in conversation with Tracy Farr at Unity Bookshop to discuss her new book The Shadow Land.
Join Elizabeth Kostova in conversation with Paula Morris at Time Out Bookshop to discuss her new book The Shadow Land.
Join Elizabeth Kostova in conversation with Kate Forsyth at Kinokuniya Bookshop to discuss her new book The Shadow Land.
Novelists are outrageous.
They watch the rest of us covertly, carefully, thoughtfully, then turn us into characters, as though we are mere fodder for their imagination.
Elizabeth Kostova, Rose Michael and Robert Gott talk to Dianne Dempsey about the transformative process of creating characters.
The material for fiction, says Elizabeth Kostova, tends to occur to the writer by chance, like the accidents of heartbreak, homesickness, inspiration.
The source can also be lodged in real events, a big event that rocks a community, and changes the course of history.
Like Tony Jones in his debut novel, The Twentieth Man, Kostova digs into political history to plant the fictional seed for her new book.The Shadow Land.
They talk with Claire Flanagan Smith about how novels can transmute the past, and what the novelist owes to history and the real people who lived it.
In The Historian and The Swan Thieves, Elizabeth Kostova combined suspense with romance, history with up-to-the-minute storytelling, in a style that impressed critics and won her many fans.
Caroline Baum talks with her about this compelling new novel, set in Bulgaria, where the shadow of corrupt power threatens the hopes, happiness and the very existence of a dazzling cast of characters.
What does Bulgaria mean to Kostova? What does her novel tell us about the abuse of power, and the importance of history?
And what about romance? Dogs? The supernatural? Architecture? Music? It’s a packed novel and this will surely be a brilliant conversation with one of most imaginative novelists writing today.
Talk / Q&A/ Signing
In conversation with Lynn Cullen / Q&A / Signing
With Atlanta History Center
In conversation with Charles Finch
Talk / Q&A / Signing
In conversation with Helen Simonson
Talk / Q&A / Signing
Talk / Q&A / Signing
In conversation with Patricia Lynch
In conversation with Natalie Bakopoulos / Signing
Talk / Q&A / Signing
In conversation with Melissa Cistaro
Talk / Q&A / Signing
In conversation with Eleanor Brown / Q&A / Signing
In conversation with Ron Rash / Q&A / Signing
(Held in UNC-Asheville's Humanities Lecture Hall)