Name: Neel Mukherjee, Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival
Start: 2014-09-14
Location: London Jewish Cultural Centre

Neel Mukherjee, Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival

As part of the Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival, Booker nominee Neel Mukherajee discusses his latest novel, a stunningly vivid family saga set in 1960s India.

Neel Murkherjee is interested in India’s outsiders, those who choose to leave or vanish from society. A Life Apart (2010) follows a gay man fleeing Calcutta to seek freedom in England, while new novel the The Lives of Others centres on the scion of a rich paper-producing family who leaves their home to become a dissident. Set in the late 1960s, The Lives is part vivid family saga, part unsparing societal critique, exposing the terrible cost of bourgeoisie Indian life at a moment of turbulent change. Murkerjee’s prose, spare and precise, is hypnotic. The novel has been shortlisted for the 2014 Man Booker Prize .

This is a rare and exciting chance to see one of the most talented new literary voices, and to gain an insight into this absorbing new novel.

What	Neel Mukherjee, Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival
Where	London Jewish Cultural Centre, 94-96 North End Road, London, NW11 7SX \| MAP
Nearest tube	Golders Green (underground)
When	On 14 Sep 14, 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Price	£8
Website	Click here to book via London Jewish Culture Centre

Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival

This is one of our top picks from the 70 events that make up the jam-packed programme of this year’s Hampstead and Highgate Literary Festival. There’s more than 90 writers involved in the festival. Our other top picks include: a guided tour around Bloomsbury, Booker-nominated author Deborah Levy, a discussion about best-selling anthology Poems that Make Grown Men Cry and, if you fancy bringing along the little ones, Kidsfest has 11 literary events and activities to excite the tiniest readers to the almost adults. Click here to see the full line up.

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Many of these events, though not all, take place in the spacious surroundings of the London Jewish Culture Centre. This historic venue was one the home of star Ballerina Anna Pavlova. Now it's been converted into a multi-functional education and event space, which welcomes around 1,7000 people a week, of all faiths, to a vast selection of courses and cultural activities.