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SUMMARY:Miriam Sved: Illuminated Ruins
LOCATION:Readings Emporium
DESCRIPTION:We are delighted to host the launch of Miriam Sved's novel\, Il
 luminated Ruins.\n\nHong Kong\, 1956. On the heights of The Peak\, the onl
 y way to survive the past is to bury it. For Uri Weiss and his wife\, Lujz
 a\, life in the British colony is a tailored mask. Hungarian Jewish doctor
 s who escaped the wreckage of Europe only to endure Japanese occupation\, 
 they have rebuilt themselves through a fragile\, assimilated restraint.\n
 \nThe arrival of the Mackays upends this peace. Hugh is a charismatic Amer
 ican with shadowy connections and Nancy is his effortlessly poised wife. A
 s the families entwine\, their daughters – Millie and Anne – form a bo
 nd so intense it threatens to consume them.\n\nWhile the adults navigate t
 he social rituals of the colony\, the children retreat to the island’s i
 lluminated ruins. Playing among bombed-out shells and wartime bunkers\, th
 ey mirror a world of missions and cover stories. But when Anne reveals a t
 ruth Millie’s parents have kept unspoken for a decade\, the foundations 
 of their universe fracture.\n\nAs the Suez Crisis ignites\, the children
 ’s games lead them from the safety of The Peak into the Triad-controlled
  underworld of the Walled City. In a landscape of stolen identities\, both
  families must finally confront the violence they can no longer outrun.\n
 \nFree\, but bookings are essential.\n\nBoletos: https://www.trybooking.co
 m/events/landing/1640121
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