Diaspora Dialogues: Place and Identity
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Presented by Diaspora Dialogues
Camille Hernández-Ramdwar and Antanas Sileika discuss their new fiction releases Suite as Sugar and Some Unfinished Business. The discussion will be moderated by Aparita Bhandari.
Some Unfinished Business by Antanas Sileika
Cormorant Books
Gripping and evocative, Some Unfinished Business tells the story of a young man who is determined to prevail through anti-Soviet resistance in occupied Lithuania, imprisonment in the Gulag, and the icy hands of bureaucracy that attempt to thwart his love for a woman with a mysterious past — all while chasing the back of the man who dared him to dream in the first place.
At fourteen, Martin Averka met a teacher from the city who inspired him to seek out the wide world beyond his small village of Lyn Lake. Years later, having lived under the tyranny of an autocratic system populated by cowards and bullies and seeking revenge, he breaks into the Pažaislis Monastery Asylum to come face to face with the man from his youth for one last time.
Suite as Sugar by Camille Hernández-Ramdwar
Rare Machines (Dundurn Press)
From Winnipeg winterscapes to Toronto’s condo culture, from Havana’s haunted streets to Trinidad’s calamitous environs, the stories in Suite as Sugar are permeated with the violence of colonial histories, personal and intimate, reflecting legacies of abandonment and loss. The veil between the living and the dead is obscured, chaos becomes panacea, and characters take drastic measures into their own hands.
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