Events
16.11.2024, 4:30 PM Terézia Mora in Milan
Meet the author
Milan | Castello Sforzesco - Weil Weiss
BookCity 2024
The Goethe-Institut Milan presents the German-Hungarian author Terézia Mora in collaboration with Feltrinelli Editore.
Terézia Mora discusses her novel „“Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens - “Muna or Half of Life”
Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens (Luchterhand 2023) – La metà della vita (Gramma Feltrinelli 2024)
Muna has been blinded (supposedly) by love. Just as she is about to graduate from high school, she meets Magnus, a French teacher and photographer. After spending a night together, Magnus disappears after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Like many families in East Germany, Muna experiences a major upheaval in her life. She moves to Berlin, Vienna and London. Yet once she unexpectedly runs into Magnus again, the once ambitious young woman abandons all her goals and achievements. The relationship turns toxic— characterized by violence, humiliation and self-deception. Can Muna save herself from this unhealthy bond?
Terézia Mora was born in communist Hungary in 1971, and has lived in Berlin since the fall of the Berlin Wall. She studied Hungarian Studies and Theater Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has been a full-time writer and translator since her first publication in 1999.
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut as part of the Litrix.de program.
Language: Original with translation
Price: Free admission
progr-mailand@goethe.de
Partner
Gramma Feltrinelli
BookCity 2024
The Goethe-Institut Milan presents the German-Hungarian author Terézia Mora in collaboration with Feltrinelli Editore.
Terézia Mora discusses her novel „“Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens - “Muna or Half of Life”
Muna oder Die Hälfte des Lebens (Luchterhand 2023) – La metà della vita (Gramma Feltrinelli 2024)
Muna has been blinded (supposedly) by love. Just as she is about to graduate from high school, she meets Magnus, a French teacher and photographer. After spending a night together, Magnus disappears after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Like many families in East Germany, Muna experiences a major upheaval in her life. She moves to Berlin, Vienna and London. Yet once she unexpectedly runs into Magnus again, the once ambitious young woman abandons all her goals and achievements. The relationship turns toxic— characterized by violence, humiliation and self-deception. Can Muna save herself from this unhealthy bond?
Terézia Mora was born in communist Hungary in 1971, and has lived in Berlin since the fall of the Berlin Wall. She studied Hungarian Studies and Theater Studies at the Humboldt University in Berlin. She has been a full-time writer and translator since her first publication in 1999.
In cooperation with the Goethe-Institut as part of the Litrix.de program.
Language: Original with translation
Price: Free admission
progr-mailand@goethe.de
Partner
Gramma Feltrinelli