Jakuta Alikavazovic: Like a Sky Inside
7:00 pm PT
City Lights Bookstore | 261 Columbus Avenue | San Francisco, CA
City Lights, Fern Books, Villa Albertine, and the Center for the Art of Translation host Jakuta Alikavazovic to celebrate the publication of Like a Sky Inside, translated by Daniel Levin Becker. Jakuta will be in conversation with JiaJing Liu.
This event will be held onsite at City Lights Bookstore. It will also be broadcast on Zoom. Registration is required for online access.
This event is a part of Villa Albertine’s Authors on Tour(opens in a new tab) program. Jakuta Alikavazovic’s 2024 US tour(opens in a new tab) is made possible by Villa Albertine and Fern Books”
About Like a Sky Inside:
In March 2020, a young woman spends the night in the Louvre. At home: her nine-month-old son. In her overnight bag: a notebook, a toiletry kit, a duvet, a cube of nougat, and something that shouldn’t be there. In her head: memories of the Venus de Milo, of land art and the American road, of romance and travel and immigration and war — and of her father, who after each of their many visits to the Louvre would ask just how she’d go about stealing the Mona Lisa.
An insightful and heartfelt meditation on the possibilities and impossibilities of art, on parenthood and the betrayals of growing up, on foreignness and belonging, and on the secret conversations between our souls and the places that linger in our dreams.
Jakuta Alikavazovic is a French writer of Bosnian and Montenegrin origins. She has received the Prix Goncourt for a first novel and the Prix Médicis for non-fiction, among other European awards and nominations. She is a columnist for the newspaper Libération and the translator into French of authors including David Foster Wallace and Toni Morrison.