The Fiction Writer’s Voice: Da Chen on Brothers, Marlon James on The Book of Night Women, and Dominic Smith on Bright and Distant Shores
Saturday, Nov. 19, 3:30 p.m., Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
Author(s) and Guest(s)
Da Chen
Da Chen is a leading Chinese-American memoirist and literary novelist. He is the author of much-heralded, best-selling memoirs, Colors of the Mountain and Sounds of the River. His books are used as textbooks in Yale, Vassar, Wellesley, in the New York State University system, and in high schools and middle schools throughout the country. His newest novel, My Last Empress, will be published next year.
Marlon James
In the novel, The Book of Night Women (Riverhead, $26.95), Marlon James explores the ferociously cruel and dehumanizing practice of slavery in Jamaica. The book is narrated in a lilting Jamaican patois that at once underscores and eerily conflicts with the disturbing images of violence and degradation that James conjures. "Night Women will keep readers up at night," says Bookmarks magazine.
Dominic Smith
Dominic Smith's third novel, Bright and Distant Shores (Washington Square Press; $15.00) takes readers on a high-sea historical adventure as he explores the West's exploitation of traditional cultures at end of the 19th century. " . . . will appeal to those who enjoy literary historical fiction with a touch of exotic adventure,” says Library Journal. Smith is the author of the novels The Mercury Visions of Louis Daguerre and The Beautiful Miscellaneous.
Schedule
Location
Miami Book Fair International * Miami Dade College
300 NE Second Ave., Miami, FL 33132
Centre Gallery (Building 1, 3rd Floor, Room 1365)
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