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THE FARAWAY NEAR: RUTH OZEKI

PLEASE NOTE THIS EVENT HAS MOVED TO THE EARLIER TIME OF 4.30PM (PREVIOUSLY 6.30PM).

Novelist, filmmaker and Zen Buddhist priest Ruth Ozeki, best known for My Year of Meats and the Booker short-listed A Tale for the Time Being, beams in from Connecticut to talk about her latest novel, The Book of Form and Emptiness, with Liz Grant. Touching on the importance of reading, the strangeness of consumer culture, and resilience and grief, it was described by David Mitchell as a ‘compassionate novel of life, love and loss [which] glows in the dark. Its strange, beautiful pages turn themselves’.

What is The Faraway Near? Our custom digital venue that has the intimacy of a night at the pub with friends – and a favourite writer. Find out more here.

The safety of our audience is paramount: please arrive early, scan in and wear a mask. Audience numbers are capped under COVID Alert Level 2 and social distancing measures will be in place within each venue.

Saturday, 13 November
TSB Space, Tūranga, 60 Cathedral Square 4:30 pm - 5:30 pm $38/36 (Service fees apply)

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