Destination Galapagos: Nino Ricci reads from his novel THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES October 15, 2009

Thursday, October 15, 2009 at 6:30pm
Consulate General of Canada
Three Copley Place, Suite 400
Boston, MA 02116

On Thursday, October 15, 2009, award-winning Canadian author Nino Ricci will read from his latest novel, The Origin of Species, at the Consulate General of Canada. Please join us for this presentation, organized in partnership with the Bridgewater State College Canadian Studies Program. Doors will open at 6:30 p.m. and light refreshments will be served.

Nino Ricci's first novel, Lives of the Saints (1990), was an internationally acclaimed masterpiece, spending a stunning 75 weeks on The Globe and Mail's best-seller list. In Canada it won the Governor General's Award and the W.H. Smith/Books in Canada First Novel Award, in England the Betty Trask Award and the Winnifred Holtby Prize, and in France the Prise Contrepoint Madrineaux.

The Origin of Species is Nino Ricci’s fifth novel and in 2008 was the winner of the Governor General’s Award for Fiction. Set in Montreal in the 1980s, it tells the story of thirty-something Alex Fratarcangeli. By all accounts an otherwise unexceptional man, Alex is haunted by an extraordinary experience in the Galapagos Islands, the consequences of which threaten to upend the precarious balance of his ordinary life.

The event is free and open to the public, however space is limited and an RSVP is required. For more information and to RSVP, please contact Marc Jacques by email at [email protected] or by telephone at 617-247-5123.

RSVP’s are mandatory for security purposes and ID is required for admittance.