Event overview
The Goldsmiths Writers’ Centre presents Mariana Swann talking about her book ‘Pachamama: Mother Earth - Three Generations of a Bolivian Family’
Every family has secrets. Some are just darker than others. Questions about her grandfather haunted Mariana Swann from her childhood onwards. She knew that he had been brutally murdered and that her grandmother, in response, lived in a prison of her own making, praying every moment of the day. She also knew that in the late 1960s, her cousins, devout Christians concerned with the condition of the poor, joined the liberation theology movement and - three years after the death of Che Guevara - participated in a new guerrilla uprising, with heartbreaking consequences. But what truly happened to her family across three generations was a mystery until she dived into history to find out. What she learned – the story not only of a family but of a developing country - changed her forever.
Mariana Swann grew up in Bolivia. While at Geneva University, she met her future husband and moved to England in 1982. She worked as a part-time translator and foreign languages teacher for many years, and has published short stories and newspaper articles. She received her MA in creative writing at Goldsmiths in 2010. ‘Pachamama’ is her first book.
There will be drinks provided by the Bolivian Embassy after the launch – followed by Rachel Cusk talking about her fiction at 6.30pm in the Stuart Hall Building, LG02
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
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| 22 Feb 2017 | 5:00pm - 6:30pm |
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