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SUMMARY:The Unremembered Past
LOCATION:Kingston Marriott - Limestone City Ballroom A/B
DESCRIPTION:Welcome back Marina Nemat as she joins Leslie Shimotakahara on 
 stage to discuss two remarkable works of historical fiction inspired by re
 al-life family stories. Nemat’ Mistress of the Persian Boarding House\, 
 is inspired by her grandmother's dramatic flight from revolutionary Russia
  to Iran. Shimotakahara presents The Breakwater\, a beautifully told saga 
 centred on a pair of brothers whose rivalries come to a head amid the tumu
 lt of the Japanese-Canadian experience during World War II.\nMarina Nemat 
 is the author of the bestselling memoir Prisoner of Tehran and its follow-
 up memoir After Tehran. Imprisoned in Iran as a teenager for political dis
 sent\, she later immigrated to Canada. Marina is the recipient of the Huma
 n Dignity Award from the European Parliament. She lives in eastern Ontario
 . \nLeslie Shimotakahara is the author of the novel After the Bloom and t
 he memoir The Reading List. She won the Canada-Japan Literary Prize and ha
 s been shortlisted for the K.M. Hunter Artist Award. She holds a PhD in En
 glish from Brown University and lives in Toronto.\n \n\nBoletos: https://
 www.showpass.com/the-unremembered-past/
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