In Conversation Subhash Jaireth with Claudia Hyles

Thursday, Nov 15, 2012

In Conversation - Author Subhash Jaireth will discuss After Love, his most recent novel, with Reviewer Claudia Hyles at Asia Bookroom


About the Book:

After Love is a haunting novel of love, betrayal and redemption, set in India, Russia and Italy.

Vasu, a young Indian student of architecture, arrives in Moscow in the late 1960s. He falls in love with Anna, an archaeologist and an accomplished cellist, yet his romanticism about the Soviet Union clashes with her experience. He goes back to India to design a village for a
co-operative of coffee farmers, but he cannot forget Anna and on his return they marry. Anna wants to leave Moscow but isn’t keen to go to India. They decide to go to Venice where Vasu has been offered a teaching position. In Italy their life unravels when Anna mysteriously disappears without a trace. Years later, Vasu discovers a painful but wonderful truth.

A beautifully written story full of music and emotions that moves with ease across continents, After Loveis destined to touch the hearts of readers everywhere

About Subhash Jaireth:

Subhash Jaireth was born in a small town in Punjab, Northern India. Between 1969 and 1978 he spent nine years in Moscow studying geology. He has published poems in Hindi, Russian and English. His book To Silence: Three Autobiographies was published by Puncher & Wattmann in March 2011 and has recently been performed as theatre piece. He lives in Canberra, Australia.

About Claudia Hyles:

Claudia Hyles is a writer and reviewer who has had a long love affair with the Indian sub-continent which she has visited 34 times since 1968. She is a literary reviewer – most frequently Indian, Pakistani and Bangladeshi books -and this is how she first met Subhash Jaireth, reviewing his “To Silence” for the Australian Book Review.

When: 6pm Thursday November 15th, 2012

Where: Asia Bookroom, Unit 2, 1 - 3 Lawry Place, Macquarie. ACT

RSVP: By 14th of November please by phoning 6251 5191 or Email Us

Admission by gold coin donation to the Indigenous Literacy Foundation

Don't miss this event, but, if you can't join us on the 15th of November and would like to buy a signed copy let us know as it can easily be arranged.