AAWE Presents: An Evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning Author Jennifer Egan
Friday September 23, 2022 | 19h00-20h30
The American Center for Art and Culture | 34 Av. de New York, 75116 Paris
RSVP is required for this private evening. The event is free for AAWE members and invited guests from partner associations.
NOTE: This event will be offered in English, with live French translation by Marguerite Capelle.
AAWE, in partnership with the American Center for Art and Culture, Edition Robert Laffont, and Festival America 2022, presents a special evening with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jennifer Egan on her book launch of the French translation of The Candy House. A moderated interview with Jennifer Egan will be followed by book signings of her book in French and English and a champagne toast, sponsored by Champagne Dourdon-Vieillard.
Jennifer Egan's book The Candy House (French title is La maison en pain d'épices), is a dystopian novel and loose sequel to her 2011 Pulitzer Prize-winning book A Visit From the Goon Squad. The main character, Bix Bouton, develops an ambitious concept: the "externalization" of memory, a principle which allows one's memories to be accessible and shared with those of others. This concept seduces many people. However, Jennifer Egan recounts the disastrous consequences of this invention by exploring the lives of many characters whose paths cross randomly for decades. The novel is also a moving testimony to the tenacity and transcendence of human beings in search of true connections, love, intimacy and redemption.
Biography
Jennifer Egan, born in Chicago, IL, is an American novelist and short story writer. Egan's novel A Visit from the Goon Squad won the 2011 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Her other books include Look At Me (2001), The Keep (2006), and Manhattan Beach (2017) She is also the President of the PEN America Center. Her writing regularly appears in The New Yorker, Harper's Magazine, and The New York Times Magazine. She lives in Brooklyn with her husband and two sons.
NOTE: Jennifer Egan books in English will be available and sold by The Red Wheelbarrow Bookstore.
