About this Event
Succeed2gether’s Montclair Literary Festival is thrilled to welcome renowned author Isabel Allende to a pre-festival event in Montclair on Wednesday, January 22, 2020, to discuss her latest novel, A Long Petal of the Sea.
A masterful work of historical fiction about hope, exile, and belonging, A Long Petal of the Sea shows Isabel Allende at the height of her powers. This epic novel, spanning decades and crossing continents, follows two young people as they flee the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War in search of a place to call home.
Tickets will include a copy of A Long Petal of the Sea or Largo Pétalo de Mar, the Spanish edition of the novel. Books will be presigned by the author.
Doors open at 6.15pm.
The VIP admission includes a post-event cocktail party, priority entry and reserved seating.
Isabel Allende’s first novel, The House of the Spirits, established her as one of the most esteemed storytellers of her time. She is the highest-selling Spanish language author in the world, with over 75 million copies of her books in print. Her books have been translated into more than 27 languages and have become bestsellers across four continents. She is a recipient of the Presidential Medal of Freedom from Barack Obama and the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award. Through the Isabel Allende Foundation (founded in 1995), she is a champion of women’s rights worldwide.
This event is a fundraiser for Montclair-based non-profit Succeed2gether, which offers after-school one-on-one tutoring and enrichment classes with the aim of closing the education opportunity gap in Essex County.
The fourth annual Montclair Literary Festival will take place March 25 to 29, 2020. Please visit succeed2gether.org/montclair-literary-festival/ for more details of the program, which will feature more than 100 authors. The festival organizing committee wishes to thank event partners Succeed2gether staff, Montclair Public Library, First Congregational Church, and Watchung Booksellers, and festival sponsors Rao’s, Montclair State University, West of Hudson Realty Group, and community members.
Ticket Link: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/book-tour-isabel-allende-a-long-petal-of-the-sea-tickets-83884630187
Link to Montclair Book Festival: https://succeed2gether.org/montclair-literary-festival/
About Isabel
Isabel Allende—novelist, feminist, and philanthropist—is one of the most widely-read authors in the world, having sold more than 74 million books. Born in Peru and raised in Chile, Isabel won worldwide acclaim in 1982 with the publication of her first novel, The House of the Spirits, which began as a letter to her dying grandfather. Since then, she has authored more than twenty three bestselling and critically acclaimed books, including Of Love and Shadows, Eva Luna, Daughter of Fortune, Island Beneath the Sea, Paula, The Japanese Lover and In the Midst of Winter. Translated into more than forty two languages. Allende’s works entertain and educate readers by interweaving imaginative stories with significant historical events. In addition to her work as a writer, Allende devotes much of her time to human rights causes. In 1996, following the death of her daughter Paula, she established a charitable foundation in her honor, which has awarded grants to more than 100 nonprofits worldwide, delivering life-changing care to hundreds of thousands of women and girls. More than 8 million have watched her TED Talks on leading a passionate life. She has received fifteen honorary doctorates, including one from Harvard University, was inducted into the California Hall of Fame, received the PEN Center Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Lifetime Achievement Award. In 2014, President Barack Obama awarded Allende the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the nation’s highest civilian honor, and in 2018 she received the Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters from the National Book Foundation. She lives in California. Her website is IsabelAllende.com.
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