Price
- £6.00
Length
- 60
Presented By
- LITFEST
VENUE: Lancaster Library
‘Joanna Kavenna. What a writer’ Ali Smith
In August 2007, or thereabouts, a young philosopher leaves Oslo, heading for Greece, on a mission to find Theodoros Apostolakis, the head of the Society of Lost Things. Fortunately, Apostolakis isn't lost, but everything else is: ancient libraries, entire civilisations, priceless books and a beautiful box, once used to play the world-famous game of Seven. The hunt for this small thing, among the countless lost things, becomes an absurdist quest through time and space: from the earliest human societies to the advent of AI.
Seven is an extraordinary, uplifting journey through an ever-darkening world.
‘To surrender yourself to the revelations of life and then to come back with the assertions of prose: that is the new heroism of the woman writer, and Kavenna is in the vanguard of it’ Rachel Cusk
Author
Joanna Kavenna grew up in Britain, and has also lived in the US, France, Germany, China, Sri Lanka, Scandinavia, Italy and the Baltic states. She is the author of several critically acclaimed works of fiction and nonfiction, including Inglorious, The Birth of Love, A Field Guide to Reality, Zed and – most recently – Seven. She was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2013.
