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| Vanora Bennett will give a talk on February 23rd |
Next month the Friends of Molesey Library offers you an
opportunity to delve a little deeper into the Russian psyche by accepting our
invitation to attend our latest Meet the Author event. It’s on Tuesday February 23rd
at 7.30pm and will be with Vanora Bennett, a writer with considerable first-hand
experience and who admits to having ‘an obsession with Russia’.
Vanora started her career as a journalist, working in Paris,
Cambodia, and parts of Africa and finally landing in the country which stopped being
the Soviet Union three months after she arrived. She spent much of the early
1990s in smoky taxis in the Caucasus mountains, covering a series of small
post-Soviet conflicts that built up to the war in Chechnya. As an afterthought,
she started writing books. She now has eight books to her name, including two novels
set in Russia or about Russians - The White Russian and Midnight in St Petersburg.
She has also written two works of non-fiction about Russia - Crying Wolf, about
the start of the post-Soviet war in Chechnya, and The Taste of Dreams: An
Obsession with Russia and Caviar, which is a travelogue through the wilder
parts of newly capitalist Russia in the 1990s.
Vanora will speak about the fate of Russia’s White Emigrés
after the 1917 Revolution in a talk entitled Down & Out in Paris &
London, and will take your questions about her work and what lessons we can
learn in today’s world. Signed copies of
her books will be available to purchase on the night.
Tickets cost £5 – which includes a glass of wine or soft
drink – and they can be purchased at Molesey Library. Alternatively, you can send
a cheque (made payable to Friends of Molesey Library) with a stamped addressed
envelope, to Author Event, Molesey Library, The Forum, Walton Road, West
Molesey KT8 2HZ.
