8:00-10:00 p.m.
Unterberg Poetry Center at the 92nd St. Y
1395 Lexington Ave.
New York, NY
"Listen," writes the Lebanese novelist Rabih Alameddine at the beginning of The Hakawati. "Allow me to be your god. Let me take you on a journey beyond imagining. Let me tell you a story." The Hakawati ("storyteller") is "an absolute beauty," wrote Junot Díaz. "One of the finest novels I’ve read in years."
Joseph O'Neill's Netherland won this year's PEN/Faulkner Award. The New York Times Book Review called it "the wittiest, angriest, most exacting and most desolate work of fiction we've yet had about life in New York and London after the World Trade Center fell." James Wood called it "remarkable . . . a postcolonial re-writing of The Great Gatsby." And in a Times interview last spring, President Obama said he'd grown tired of briefing books and taken to reading Netherland at night. It's "fascinating," President Obama said. "A wonderful book."
Those 35 and younger can get into these events for only $10!
To purchase tickets, call our Box Office at 212.415.5500 or visit our website: www.92y.org/poetry
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