The Epicenter: French Author Arno Bertina & Laird Hunt February 26, 2013

Join Litquake, Green Apple Books, the Consulate General of France in San Francisco, and the French American Cultural Society for French author Arno Bertina and the launch of his first novel translated into English, "Brando, My Solitude."

Arno will be in conversation with his translator, American author Laird Hunt. The conversation will be in English.

In Bertina's tale, conceived as a biographical hypothesis, the author and his grandfather meet posthumously. The result is an exploration of an existence played quietly out across the 20th century, through provincial French childhood, war, colonization and provincial French retirement.

Arno Bertina is the prolific and critically acclaimed author of several novels. His novel J'ai appris a ne pas rire du demon ("I Learnt Not to Laugh at the Demon") is biographic fiction dedicated to the singer Johnny Cash, and his philosophical road novel "Je suis une aventure" features tennis star Roger Federer as a central character. He is also one of the founders and editors of the influential Paris-based literary review "Inculte."

Laird Hunt is an American author of six books: a short story collection and five novels, including his latest, "Kind One." His writings, reviews and translations appear in the United States and abroad, and he lives in Boulder, Colorado.

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