Border Kitchen - Alan Hollinghurst
The new year kicks off with a BorderKitchen event on 12 February with a very special guest: renowned English novelist Alan Hollinghurst. He will talk about his new book Our Evenings at the Central Library in The Hague.
Amazing novel
Our Evenings is about Dave Win. He is thirteen when he first goes to stay with the Hadlows, who fund his scholarship to the local boarding school where he is in class with their son Giles. For Dave, this means a world of heady new possibilities, but it also exposes him to Giles' jealousy and violent behaviour. Our Evenings spans half a century and shows how the boys each go their separate ways - Dave becomes a talented actor struggling with conventions and discrimination, Giles an increasingly powerful and dangerous politician. Our Evenings is Dave Win's own narrative of his life as a schoolboy and student, his first loves, in London and on tour with an experimental theatre group, and a love later in life that gives him both a new sense of happiness and fragile security.
Dark and radiant, poignant and devilishly funny: Alan Hollinghurst's new novel paints a portrait of modern Britain through the lens of one man's astutely observed and often disturbing experiences. It is a tale of race and class, theatre and sexuality, love and violence, from one of the greatest writers of our time.
Alan Hollinghurst will be signing books after the interview. His books will be on sale during the event.