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Two International Booker Prize winners, two novels about social change: in »Our City that Year« [tr. Daisy Rockwell], Geetanjali Shree processes the destruction of a mosque in Ayodhya, India, by religious extremists in 1992 to create a polyphonic portrait of a fractured society. In »Celestial Bodies« [tr. Marilyn Booth], Jokha Alharthi tells of the lives of three sisters in the Omani village of al-Awafi – caught between tradition and the dawn of a new order.

In cooperation with Das Blaue Sofa Bertelsmann

With Geetanjali Shree, Jokha Alharthi
Moderated by Marie Kaiser

This event was held in English.

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