Two Lines Press

Ann Arbor: Out of the Sugar Factory

May 11, 2023|6:30pm

6:30 pm Eastern Time

Literati Bookstore | 124 E. Washington | Ann Arbor, MI

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Literati Bookstore welcomes Dorothee Elmiger and Megan Ewing for a discussion of Out of the Sugar Factory, by Dorothee Elmiger and translated by Megan Ewing

Swiss author Dorothee Elmiger’s Out of the Sugar Factory, a finalist for the German Book Prize, is a work of fiction that’s been described as “hallucinatory” but is also thoroughly grounded in historical research. Elmiger’s protagonist (also named Dorothee Elmiger) is an archivist, an obsessive collector of objects related to the violent history of the global sugar trade, which unfolds through a kaleidoscopic narrative that’s as intellectually engaged as it is self-reflexive.

This event is presented with the support of the Swiss Arts Council ProHelvetia.

Author

Dorothee Elmiger

Dorothee Elmiger was born in 1985 in Switzerland. She is the author of Out of the Sugar Factory, Shift Sleepers and Invitation to the Bold of Heart. She lives in New York City.

Translator

Megan Ewing

Megan Ewing is an Assistant Professor of German at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. Her research takes up issues of space, scale, and the senses in twentieth- and twenty-first-century German-language literature and art. Her current book project is on ecological thinking in the neo-avantgarde. She is also the translator of Shiftsleepers by Dorothee Elmiger (Seagull, 2019)