李翊云今晚做客 Philadelphia 免费图书馆：新长篇《Music Against the Night》作者见面会
位于宾夕法尼亚州费城县的费城市（市县合一），位于宾夕法尼亚州的 Philadelphia 市，华裔作家李翊云（Yiyun Li）今晚（10月20日）7点做客费城免费图书馆中央馆（1901 Vine Street），出席新书作者见面会，与作家 Weike Wang 对谈，交流她10月13日出版的新长篇小说《Music Against the Night》；这场活动已被费城亚洲美国人电影基金会（PAAFF）列入今日社区日程。小说以浪漫主义时代的欧洲为舞台：爱尔兰少年 John Field 凭音乐天赋一路走向俄国宫廷，他写下的「夜曲」最终被肖邦发扬光大；另一位主角 Adelaide 出身法属印度，凭一架钢琴逃出既定命运，辗转 Paris 与 Moscow。李翊云在近期的访谈中说，连续失去两个儿子之后，她发现「语言常常不够用」，于是选择音乐这个语言之外的主题来完成这部作品。她生于北京、在 Princeton University 任教，是麦克阿瑟奖、PEN/Faulkner 奖得主，也是当代英语文坛最受瞩目的华裔作家之一。Philadelphia 站是她此次全美巡回的一站，前一晚她刚在华盛顿与读者见面。（GSM 据 PAAFF 活动日程与费城免费图书馆基金会公告）
Yiyun Li at the Free Library of Philadelphia Tonight: Author Event for New Novel Music Against the Night
Philadelphia is a city in Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania (a consolidated city-county). In Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Chinese American writer Yiyun Li appears tonight (October 20) at 7 p.m. at the Parkway Central Library of the Free Library of Philadelphia (1901 Vine Street) for an author event on her new novel Music Against the Night, published October 13, in conversation with writer Weike Wang; the Philadelphia Asian American Film Foundation (PAAFF) has listed the event on its community calendar for today. Set in Romantic-era Europe, the novel follows Irish teenager John Field, whose musical gift carries him to the Russian court and whose nocturnes are later immortalized by Chopin, and Adelaide of French India, who escapes a prescribed fate by way of a pianoforte and travels through Paris and Moscow. In recent interviews Li has said that after losing both of her sons she found that words often fall short, and chose music, a subject beyond words, for this work. Born in Beijing and now teaching at Princeton University, she is a MacArthur Fellow and PEN/Faulkner Award winner and one of the most prominent Chinese American writers in English today. The Philadelphia stop is part of her national tour; the previous evening she appeared in Washington. (GSM, based on the PAAFF calendar and the Free Library of Philadelphia Foundation)
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