Katya Adaui - Here Be Icebergs

We are so happy to welcome Peruvian author Katya Adaui to the bookshop, for a unique event celebrating her book "Here Be Icebergs", translated by Rosalind Harvey and published by Edinburgh's own Charco Press. This is Adaui's first event in Scotland, and we are so excited to collaborate with Charco press for such a special event. About the book: the mysteries of kinship (families born into and families made) take disconcerting and familiar shapes in these refreshingly frank short stories. A family is haunted by a beast that splatters fruit against its walls every night, another undergoes a near-collision with a bus on the way home from the beach. Mothers are cold, fathers are absent—we know these moments in the abstract, but Adaui makes each as uncanny as our own lives: close but not yet understood. Join us for a discussion on Adaui’s uncanny stories, kinship, complicated families, literary influences, the experience of being translated, and Latin American literature. Tickets are redeemable against a copy of the book on the night of the event. No proof is required for concession tickets.