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The Museum of Modern Love/The Lace Weaver
Auditorium 1, State Library of Queensland
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#About the event
Duration: 60 minutes
Museum of Modern Love
Rose's reimagining of Abramovic's 2010 performance of The Artist is Present, in which the artist sat at a table in the Museum of Modern Art (Moma) in New York in silence every day for three months, inviting members of the public to sit opposite her.
Copies of The Museum of Modern Love are available for purchase HERE.
The Lace Weaver
A breathtaking debut about love and war, and the battle to save a precious legacy
Each lace shawl begins and ends the same way – with a circle. Everything is connected with a thread as fine as gossamer, each life affected by what has come before it and what will come after.
1941, Estonia. As Stalin’s brutal Red Army crushes everything in its path, Katarina and her family survive only because their precious farm produce is needed to feed the occupying forces.
Fiercely partisan, Katarina battles to protect her grandmother’s precious legacy – the weaving of gossamer lace shawls stitched with intricate patterns that tell the stories passed down through generations.
While Katarina struggles to survive the daily oppression, another young woman is suffocating in her prison of privilege in Moscow. Yearning for freedom and to discover her beloved mother’s Baltic heritage, Lydia escapes to Estonia.
Facing the threat of invasion by Hitler’s encroaching Third Reich, Katarina and Lydia and two idealistic young soldiers, insurgents in the battle for their homeland, find themselves in a fight for life, liberty and love.
#Artists
Heather Rose
Heather Rose is the author of seven novels including her latest novel The Museum of Modern Love.
The Museum of Modern Love is the 2017 winner of the Stella Prize for the best book (fiction or non-fiction) written by an Australian woman. It won the 2017 Christina Stead Prize in the NSW Premier’s Literary Awards and the Margaret Scott Prize and the People’s Choice in the Tasmanian Premier’s Prizes. It was also shortlisted for the Australian Literary Society Medal and the Queensland Premier’s Prizes and longlisted for the 2018 International Dublin Literary Award. It will be published internationally in 2018 in Europe, Asia and the United States.
Heather’s other novels for adults are: The River Wife (2009), The Butterfly Man (2005) and White Heart (1999). For children, Heather writes with Danielle Wood under the pen-name Angelica Banks. Their novels are: Finding Serendipity (2013), A Week Without Tuesday (2015) and Blueberry Pancakes Forever (2016) and are also published internationally.
Heather lives by the sea in Tasmania. Her idea of a perfect day is one that involves writing, swimming, painting and laughing.
Lauren Chater
Lauren Chater writes historical fiction with a particular focus on women’s stories. After working in the media sector for many years, she turned her passion for reading and research into a professional pursuit. In 2014, she was the successful recipient of the Fiona McIntosh Commercial Fiction scholarship. In addition to writing fiction, she established The Well Read Cookie, a blog which celebrates her love of baking and literature.
She lives in Sydney with her husband and two children. The Lace Weaver is her first novel, and she is currently working on her second, Gulliver’s Wife.
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