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Sally Magnusson has 2 past events. (show) The launch of The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson In 1627 Barbary pirates raided the coast of Iceland and abducted some 400 of its people, including 250 from a tiny island off the mainland. Among the captives sold into slavery in Algiers were the island pastor, his wife and their three children. Although the raid itself is well documented, little is known about what happened to the women and children afterwards. It was a time when women everywhere were largely silent. In this brilliant reimagining, Sally Magnusson gives a voice to Asta, the pastor's wife. Enslaved in an alien Arab culture Asta meets the loss of both her freedom and her children with the one thing she has brought from home: the stories in her head. Steeped in the sagas and folk tales of her northern homeland, she finds herself experiencing not just the separations and agonies of captivity, but the reassessments that come in any age when intelligent eyes are opened to other lives, other cultures and other kinds of loving.
The Sealwoman's Giftis about the eternal power of storytelling to help us survive. The novel is full of stories - Icelandic ones told to fend off a slave-owner's advances, Arabian ones to help an old man die. And there are others, too: the stories we tell ourselves to protect our minds from what cannot otherwise be borne, the stories we need to make us happy.
Tickets are £3 for this event with the cost redeamable against a copy of the book bought at the event. (OwenRochester)… (more)
OPENING UP Carnegie Medal-winner Frank Cottrell Boyce wrote the opening ceremony for the 2012 Olympics, so it only seemed right to to have an exclusive preview of his debut collection of short stories on our own opening day. And who better to read alongside him than Scottish master storyteller Carl MacDougall, with his own long-awaited collection, Someone Always Robs the Poor? Chaired by Sally Magnusson. This event will be recorded for BBC Radio Scotland. (OwenRochester)… (more)
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