| Date | Time | Location |
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| Tuesday, March 26, 2013 | 2:00PM - 4:00PM | Seminar Room 108N, Munk School of Global Affairs 1 Devonshire Place |
Winner of the 2012 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize.
Finalist for the 2012 Governor General’s Literary Award for English-Language Fiction.
In December of 1944, the Red Army entered Budapest to begin one of the bloodiest sieges of the Second World War. By February, the siege was over, but its effects were to be felt for decades afterward.
Siege 13 is a collection of thirteen linked stories about this terrible time in history, both its historical moment, but also later, as a legacy of silence, haunting, and trauma that shadows the survivors.Set in both Budapest before and after the siege, and in the present day — in Canada, the U.S., and parts of Europe — Siege 13 traces the ripple effect of this time on characters directly involved, and on their friends, associates, sons, daughters, grandchildren, and adoptive countries.
Written by one of this country’s best and most internationally recognized short story authors — the story “The Restoration of the Villa Where Tibor Kallman Once Lived” won the 2011 O.Henry Prize for short fiction — Siege 13 is an intelligent, emotional, and absorbing cycle of stories about war, family, loyalty, love and redemption.
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