Public Library to Present “One City, One Author” Programs Prior to Allende’s Visit

The Greensboro Public Library will sponsor a series of programs around the works of Isabel Allende prior to her Bryan Series visit Nov. 13.

The library, in cooperation with Guilford, will present programs about Allende to encourage community-wide interest in the upcoming visit.  Programs about Toni Morrison’s work were presented earlier this year prior to her March appearance in the series.

Born in Lima, Peru, and reared in Chile, Allende is the niece and goddaughter of Salvador Allende, who served as Chile’s president until a bloody coup in 1973 took his life. Since then, she has written about the joy, beauty, pain, and sorrow of the human condition.

Allende is one of Latin America’s most celebrated writers and the author of five international best-sellers, The House of Spirits, Of Love and Shadows, Paula, Zorro and Daughter of Fortune.  Her memoir, My Invented Country, delves into the social mores and idiosyncrasies of Chile, and her most recent book, Ines of My Soul, is a historical novel about the conquest of Chile and a woman who built the city of Santiago with the help of her lover.

Allende created the Isabel Allende Foundation to support programs that promote and preserve the fundamental rights of women and children to be empowered and protected.

Following are One City, One Author events: 

Book Discussions

Reader’s Choice:  All works will be discussed.

Oct. 4, 7 p.m. at Central Library

The House of the Spirits

Oct. 13, 3 p.m. at Hemphill Branch Library

Paula

Oct. 22, noon at Benjamin Branch Library

The Infinite Plan

Oct. 23, Noon at Benjamin Branch Library

Zorro

Oct. 24, 1:30 p.m. at Hemphill Branch Library

Zorro

Oct. 25, 7 p.m., at Hemphill Branch Library

Films

The House of the Spirits starring Glenn Close, Jeremy Irons and Meryl Streep

Oct. 13, 2 p.m. at Kathleen Clay Edwards Family Branch Library

The Mask of Zorro plus fencing demonstration

Oct. 27, 2 p.m. at Central Library

Isabel Allende—The Woman's Voice in Latin American Literature

Discussion with Claudia Femenias

Nov. 8, 7 p.m. at Hemphill Branch Library

Additional Programs

“Odes to Broken Things: Celebrating Pablo Neruda”

Poetry discussion led by Mark Smith-Soto

Oct. 15, 7 p.m. at Central Library

“Isabel Allende, Magical Realism and Emerging Latino Writers”

Presentation by Claudia Femenias

Oct. 20, 1:30 p.m. at Central Library

“Allende Con Amor”

Chilean wine tasting and reader's theater featuring passages of Allende’s that focus on love

Nov. 16, 6 p.m. at Central Library

For more information about One City, One Author programs, visit www.greensborolibrary.org.

For more about the Bryan Series, visit www.guilford.edu/bryanseries.

Oct. 4, 2007