Wed 14 Nov

book launch

Lydie Salvayre: The Power of flies

The Power of Flies begins in a courtroom, where a man is undergoing an interrogation. He has committed a crime and must now explain himself. While ranting on to the court about various topics – his family, the museum where he works and even Blaise Pascal - the narrator of The Power of flies reveals himself to be both calculating and unstable. Lydie Salvayre, longlisted for the Goncourt and the Renaudot Prize for her last novel Portrait de l’écrivain en animal domestique, will be in conversation with Franco-British writer Michèle Roberts.

Wed 14 Nov | 7.30pm | in English | £3, conc. £2

Find out the Review of Portrait de l'écrivain en animal domestique , by Josyane Savigneau, translated by Sophie Lewis.