Death in Spring's book launch at the Tate Modern in London promises to be an unmissable evening. The event will feature Colm Tóibín, Najat El Hachmi, poetry from Joe Dunthorne and Will Burns and a live performance by Ana da Silva of the legendary proto-feminist art-punk band The Raincoats.
Colm Tóibin, writer of the Introduction for Death in Spring as published by Penguin, will be reading fragments of his Introduction.
Catalan writer Najat El Hachmi will also be discussing the novel with Colm, followed by a Q&A with attendees.
The event will finish with a musical performance by musician Ana da Silva.
The launch event will also be a chance for attendees to discover Five Dials 45 Magazine. Its European issue is focused on Mercè Rodoreda and will be published with support for Institut Ramon Llull.
About Five Dials
Five Dials is a literary magazine edited by Londoners author Craig Taylor and published by Hamish Hamilton, an imprint of Penguin Books. Its list of contributors features the best practitioners of literary fiction and non-fiction, from Zadie Smith, Hari Kunzru, W.G. Sebald, Sam Lipsyte and Noam Chomsky to Geoff Dyer, Ali Smith, Robert Macfarlane and Jonas Hassen Khemiri.
The full archive can be accessed here: http://fivedials.com/back-issues/
Death in Spring
‘Soaringly beautiful, urgent and disturbing... A masterpiece.’ Colm Tóibín, from the introduction.
Death in Spring is a dark and dream-like tale of a teenage boy’s coming of age in a remote village in the Catalan mountains; a place cut off from the outside world, where cruel customs are blindly followed, and attempts at rebellion swiftly crushed. When his father dies, he must navigate this oppressive society alone, and learn how to live in a place of crippling conformity.
Often seen as an allegory for life under a dictatorship, Death in Spring is a bewitching and unsettling novel about power, exile, and the hope that comes from even the smallest gestures of independence.
‘Rodoreda has bedazzled me’ Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Read more at https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/309486/death-in-spring/#bAgqBZKBu9c5Qtlh.99
