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SUMMARY:Strange Lands: Nelio Biedermann & Tom Lin
DESCRIPTION:Nelio Biedermann (Lázár) and Tom Linn (Babylon\, South Dakota) come together to discuss their recent publications and the surreal settings their casts of characters inhabit. Featuring grand intergenerational families\, encroaching wars\, and inexplicable powers\, each novel delivers an epic story of survival and wonder. Moderated by author Genevieve Hudson (Boys of Alabama).   \nAbout Lázár:\nAn “astonishing…disturbingly dreamlike” (Daniel Kehlmann\, The Director) debut\, inspired by the author’s own family story—a gothic\, intergenerational family saga capturing the rise and fall of an aristocratic Hungarian family against the backdrop of the two world wars. \nAt the turn of the 20th century\, the Lázárs welcome their newest member in their rural summer estate\, surrounded by a menacingly dark\, enchanting forest. Lajos von Lázár is a baby boy with translucent skin and light-blue eyes who looks nothing like the rest of his family. Sándor\, the imposing patriarch\, is ashamed of his son’s peculiarity. Ilona finds her baby brother quite ugly. Mária is terrified that her son’s uncanny resemblance to the stagehand who died a couple weeks earlier might spell disaster. While Imre\, Sándor’s brother whose otherworldly foresight is often confused for insanity\, is struck by visions of a great catastrophe. \nLajos’s birth is emblematic of the many secrets\, affairs\, and peculiar otherworldly happenings that plague the Lázárs. As the decades go by\, they will continue to fall prey to their desires\, leading grand lives\, and experiencing even greater tragedies as they’re swept by the tides of war and revolution that befall their country. But time and again\, in the lighter years\, extraordinary love and hope shine through. \nMasterfully written and deeply haunting\, Lázár is a magisterial novel that presents the sweeping history of a nation through the lives of one extraordinary family. \n  \nAbout Babylon\, South Dakota:\nFrom the author of the Carnegie Medal in Fiction winner The Thousand Crimes of Ming Tsu comes a tantalizing\, American West saga about a Chinese American family trying to survive on their Dakota farm as a powerful\, mysterious\, and morally dubious military secret shapes their lives. \n“Lin’s gossamer prose is patient and full of wonders.”—Ed Park\, author of Same Bed Different Dreams and An Oral History of Atlantis \n  \nWhen Saul Keng Hsiu and his wife\, Mei Lee\, move from China to the United States to take possession of a 160-acre homestead bequeathed to them by a distant relative\, all they have are the possessions on their back\, some hidden gold\, and a pocketful of chrysanthemum seeds. After a rocky start and a long\, harsh winter\, the couple find themselves successfully raising chrysanthemums and livestock\, and soon after\, a daughter\, Mara. \nBut when representatives from the US Army Corps of Engineers buy an acre of the Hsiu’s farmland and begin building a missile silo\, the inexplicable starts to occur: Mara can commune with the animals on the farm\, Mei develops a hidden talent for augury\, and the chrysanthemums become impervious to everything. When the Hsius learn that the project on their farm is an effort to make America’s nuclear deterrent invulnerable\, they see firsthand the long arm of power and empire. \nIn the years and generations that follow\, increasingly impacted by the silo and its residue\, the Hsius experience strange\, wondrous\, and tragic events on their farm. An ambitious epic and an ode to the beauty and glory of our connection to the natural world\, Babylon\, South Dakota upends the idea of “strangers in a strange land” to become a classic American story. It is a daring novel about how choices reverberate across generations and asks us what we owe to one another.
URL:https://pdxbookfest.org/event/strange-lands/
LOCATION:PAM CUT // Whitsell Auditorium
CATEGORIES:Fiction Events
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