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House of Exile

Two unjust epochs; two stories of the high price paid for a commitment to human rights. In The House of Exile – a story of love, loss and war, which won the Australian Prime Minister’s Literary Award – Evelyn Juers recounts the life of Heinrich Mann, activist and writer, forced into exile after his books were burned in Nazi Germany.

Published: May 25, 2011

When: Saturday, 28. May 2011 12.00
Where: Lewes, The Charleston Trust, Charleston, Firle, Lewes, East Sussex BN8 6LL
Contact: (www.charleston.co.uk / 01273 709 709)
More info: www.englishpen.org/events/penevents/houseofexile/

Mann’s story is intricately woven with that of his literary contemporaries, such as Brecht, Joyce, Kafka and Woolf. Writer Gillian Slovo, daughter of anti-apartheid pioneers Ruth First and Joe Slovo, has personal experience of the cost of political commitment. Her father was exiled, her mother murdered.

Her memoir, Every Secret Thing, tells of her parents’ struggle and the emotional havoc it wreaked. Gillian Slovo is the President of English PEN.

o find out more, please contact www.charleston.co.uk.

To book, please call 01273 709 709; or visit: www.brightonticketshop.com.

Shuttle bus service from Lewes station (1 hour from Victoria).

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