The powerHouse Arena is proud to invite you to the book release party for:
Montecore
by Jonas Hassen Khemiri
Sunday, February 20, 4–5:30 PM
Drinks will be served.
The powerHouse Arena · 37 Main Street (corner of Water & Main St.) · DUMBO, Brooklyn
For more information, please call 718.666.3049
rsvp: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com
Up-and-coming Swedish novelist Jonas Hassen Khemiri presents his newest novel, Montecore, here at The powerHouse Arena. As an added bonus, actors from
the Play Company will kick things off with a short scene from his play INVASION!, which begins previews February 9th.
About Montecore:
At the start of this dazzlingly inventive novel from Jonas Hassen Khemiri, Abbas,
a world-famous photographer and estranged father to a young novelist—also
named Jonas Hassen Khemiri—is standing on a luxurious rooftop terrace in New
York City. He is surrounded by rock stars, intellectuals, and political luminaries
gathered to toast his 50th birthday. And yet how did Abbas, a dirt-poor Tunisian
orphan and Swedish émigré, come to enjoy such success?
Jonas is fresh off the publication of his first novel when answers to this question
come in the form of an unexpected e-mail from Kadir, a lifelong friend of Abbas
and an effervescent storyteller with delightfully anarchic linguistic idiosyncrasies.
The portrait Kadir paints of Abbas—from a voluntarily mute boy who suffers
constant night terrors, to a soulful young charmer, to a Swedish immigrant
and political exile—proves to be vastly different from Jonas's view of his
father. As the two jagged versions reconcile in Kadir and Jonas's impassioned
correspondence, we're given a portrayal of a man that is at once tender and
feverishly imagined.
With an arresting blend of humor and wit, Montecore marks the stateside arrival
of an already acclaimed international novelist. Winner of the PO Enquist Literary
Prize for accomplished European novelists under forty, Jonas Hassen Khemiri
has created a world that is as heartbreaking as it is exhilarating.
About INVASION!:
Abulkasem–a name that just might have magical powers. Everyone wants that
name, but who is Abulkasem? A cute guy I met at the corner bar. A hero in a
fairy tale. A world-renowned stage director. A shadowy figure we're tracking
across the globe. All of the above? Who is Abulkasem? And how many are
there? Francis Benhamou, Andrew Guilarte, Bobby Moreno, Debargo Sanyal star
in the US premiere of INVASION! Go to www.playco.org for ticketing information.
About the author:
Jonas Hassen Khemiri, born in Sweden in 1978, is the author of two novels and
one collection of plays and short stories. His first novel, One Eye Red, received
the Boras Tidning award for best literary debut. His second novel, Montecore,
won several literary awards including the Swedish Radio Award for best novel
of the year. Khemiri has also received the PO Enquist Literary Prize for the
most promising young European writer. He currently divides his time between
Stockholm and Berlin.
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