FADI AZZAM: SARMADA
Organisation: The Mosaic Rooms
Time: 20 October 2011 7:00pm -
Place: The Mosaic Rooms, 226 Cromwell Road, London SW5
The Mosaic Rooms Presents:
FADI AZZAM: SARMADA
An evening to launch Sarmada, the debut novel by Fadi Azzam published by Swallow Editions.
The town of Sarmada, Arabic for ‘perpetuate’ or ‘the eternally-not-challenged’, is the novel’s fictitious setting. Women are the protagonists of this story, that spans several generations and extends from Syria to Paris and back again. Myths, communists, nationalists, murder, illicit love, superstition, and erotic trees make up the tapestry of this beguiling and enchanting novel.
Fadi Azzam was born in 1973 in Swaida, Southern Syria, but like many compatriots of his generation he was forced to leave his beloved Damascus and settle in the United Arab Emirates. He is an acclaimed freelance journalist, whose work regularly features in Al Quds Al Arabi and his first collection of short stories Thahtaniat was published in March 2010.
Swallow Editions is a new not-for-profit publishing enterprise, founded and edited by Rafik Schami, that will publish the best emerging, young authors from the Arab world.
There will be readings by the author and copies of the book will be available for purchase and signings.
Thursday 20 October | 19:00
The Mosaic Rooms
226 Cromwell Road
London
SW5 0SW
Free | Booking essential on 020 7370 9990 or click here | More info