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14 Feb 2012 | |
| Meet the Author - Sri Lankan author Roma Tearne speaks about her new book 'Bone China'. | |
| Thu 6 Mar 2008 | |
| Roma Tearne will be touring Australia in March as part of the 2008 Adelaide Writers Festival, and Asia Bookroom is delighted that she has agreed to share an evening with us discussing her new novel 'Bone China'. As well as being a highly regarded novelist Roma Tearne is a well known painter, installation artist and filmmaker.
Her talk on Thursday March 6 at Asia Bookroom is sure to be a provoking one. Her first novel Mosquito was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards (formerly known as the Whitbreads) for the Costa First Novel Award. Roma Tearne is undoubtedly someone who we will be hearing a great deal more about in the future. Make sure you don't miss the opportunity to hear her speak and meet her in person! About Bone China: Grace de Silva, wife of the shiftless but charming Aloysius, has five children and a crumbling marriage. Her eldest son, Jacob, wants desperately to go to England. He hates his island home. Thornton, the most beautiful of all the children and his mother's favourite, dreams of becoming a poet. Alicia wants to be a concert pianist. Only Frieda has no ambition, other than to remain close to her family. But civil unrest is stirring in Sri Lanka and Christopher, the youngest and the rebel of the family, is soon caught up in the tragedy that follows. As the decade unfolds against a backdrop of increasing ethnic violence, Grace watches helplessly as the life she knows begins to crumble. Slowly, this once happy family is torn apart as four of her children each make the decision to leave their home and migrate to England. In London, the de Silvas are all, in their different ways, desperately homesick. Caught in a cultural clash between East and West, life is not as they expected. Only Thornton's daughter, Meeka, moves confidently into a world that is full of possibilities. But nothing is as easy as it seems and she must overcome heartbreak, a terrible mistake and single parenthood before she is finally able to see the extraordinary effects of history on her family's migration. Only then can she acknowledge the place she has come from and the person she has become. Released March 2008. Pre-order Now! About the Author: Roma Tearne fled Sri Lanka when she was ten, travelling to Britain by boat, where she has spent most of her life. She gained her Master's degree at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, and was Leverhulme Artist in Residence at the Ashmolean Museum, Oxford. She is a successful visual artist, currently on a three-year fellowship at Oxford Brookes University. Her first book, 'Mosquito' was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards for the Costa First Novel Award. When: 6pm Thursday March 6th Where: Asia Bookroom, Lawry Place, Macquarie. ACT 2614 RSVP: By Wednesday March 5th. Phone: 6251 5191 Email: books@AsiaBookroom.com All Welcome! There is no charge to attend this talk. |
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