Event Date
01 November 2018
Venue
The Book Lounge, Cape Town
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Penguin Random House invites you to the book launch of Theo & Flora :
- Date: Thursday, 1 November 2018
- Time: 17:30
- Venue: The Book Lounge
- Address: 71 Roeland Street, Cape Town
- RSVP: booklounge@gmail.com or 021 462 2425
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About the Book:
When stalled novelist Charlie Wasserman’s investment-banker wife divorces him, he finds among her belongings a box of letters. Written between 1940 and 1944, the letters reveal a love affair between her grandfather, Theo, a forty-something lawyer at the time, and Flora, a much younger journalist.
Even though Wasserman’s ex-wife has her lawyers instruct him to destroy the letters, an idea for a new book – a novel that could rekindle his career – is sparked.
As Wasserman’s preoccupation with the story of Theo and Flora grows, their lives unfurl in a symphony of brilliant detail against the backdrop of 1940s Cape Town and the war in Europe. In finely crafted prose full of wit and poignancy,
Theo & Flora showcases the skill of one of South Africa’s great contemporary novelists.