AAWW & The Strand Present: The Light at the End of the World by Siddhartha Deb with Ken Chen
Siddhartha Deb, Ken Chen
AAWW & The Strand Present: The Light at the End of the World by Siddhartha Deb with Ken Chen

This May, join us for an event with award-winning author Siddhartha Deb for the release of his new book The Light at the End of the World. Joining Siddhartha in conversation is Barnard College professor and author Ken Chen. Purchase a ticket here!

Connecting India’s tumultuous 19th and 20th centuries to its distant past and its potentially apocalyptic future, this sweeping tale of rebellion, courage, and brutality reinvents fiction for our time. Three timelines interweave to form a kaleidoscopic, epic novel in which each section is a pursuit, centered around a character who must find or recover crucial but hidden truths in their respective time. The Light at the End of the World, Siddhartha Deb’s first novel in fifteen years, is a magisterial work of shifting forms, reminiscent of Cloud Atlas and Underworld.

Siddhartha Deb was born in northeastern India and lives in Harlem, New York. He is the author of the novels The Point of Return, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year, and An Outline of the Republic, longlisted for the International Dublin Literary Award. His nonfiction book, The Beautiful and the Damned, was a finalist for the Orwell Prize and received the PEN Open award. Deb’s journalism and essays have appeared in The New York TimesThe GuardianThe New Republicn+1The Nation, and Dissent.

 

Ken Chen is a professor at Barnard College and is currently working on his next book Death Star, which follows his journey to the underworld to rescue his father and his encounters there with those destroyed by colonialism. His poetry collection, Juvenilia, was selected for the Yale Series of Younger Poets by Louise Glück. He previously served as the Executive Director of the Asian American Writers’ Workshop and co-founded CultureStrike, a national arts organization dedicated to migrant justice.

 

AAWW & The Strand Present: The Light at the End of the World by Siddhartha Deb with Ken Chen

Siddhartha Deb, Ken Chen
Wednesday, May 31, 2023
7:00 PM
$0.00


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