LITERATURE + LECTURES

Blue Willow Bookshop presents a book signing and discussion by Linda Olsson.

Join us as we welcome book club favorite Linda Olsson, author of Astrid and Veronika. She returns to the shop to sign and discuss her latest novel, Sonata for Miriam.

Sonata for Miriam (aka The Consequence of Silence) was published by Bonniers Förlag AB, Sweden, in June, by Archipel, Holland in September and by Penguin NZ and Penguin Australia in October 2008.

Sonata for Miriam will be published by Penguin US in February 2009.

Linda Olsson’s first novel, Astrid & Veronika, introduced readers to her gorgeous prose, and her extraordinary understanding of human relationships.

With her second novel, she once again charts that terrain in a novel that also explores the significant impact of history on individual lives.

In Sonata for Miriam, two events occur that will change composer Adam Anker’s life forever. Embarking on a journey that ranges from New Zealand to Poland, and then Sweden, Anker not only uncovers his parents’ true fate during World War II, but he also finally faces the consequences of an impossible choice he was forced to make twenty years before—a choice that changed the trajectory of his life.

Linda Olsson was born in Stockholm, Sweden. In 2003, she won the Sunday Star-Times short story competition. Olsson lived in Kenya, Singapore, Britain, Japan and New Zealand

Photo: Cato Lein.