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THE FARAWAY NEAR: OTTESSA MOSHFEGH

One of today’s most thrillingly inventive novelists, Booker Prize-shortlisted author Ottessa Moshfegh is the queen of bitingly mordant, unsettling and atmospheric fiction. Her work turns genre on its head, and introduces unforgettable and sometimes deliciously unpleasant characters. As The Times said, ‘Moshfegh’s writing is as lethally efficient as a flick-knife.’ Steeped in magic and set in a mediaeval village blighted by tragedy, her fifth novel Lapvona asks, ‘Where does God fit in madness?’Joining us from Southern California in conversation with Julie Hill.

WHAT IS THE FARAWAY NEAR?

The Faraway Near bar

The Faraway Near is our beautiful, intimate venue for international digital events. Grab a seat, with the night’s overseas guest seated at your table via a life-sized screen, sharing drinks and conversation. These sessions are more dinner party than hushed theatre, and were the hit of 2021’s festival.

Our guests are broadcast from their own homes around the world, and appear in informal conversation with a skilled interviewer who’s sitting with you in the bar. The bar will be open throughout, and you’ll have a chance to ask questions of your guest as well.

Choose to sit at the dining tables with our writers in the most intimate A reserve spots, or join others in the lounge to tune in from the big B reserve screen.

A Reserve: our most intimate seats, at a dining table with a small group, and your writer life-sized on screen.

B Reserve: in the lounge with a larger group, tuning into your writer on a bigger screen.

Sunday, 4 September
TSB Space, Tūranga, 60 Cathedral Square 10:00 am - 11:00 am A Reserve $42/$37
B Reserve $33/$28
*SERVICE FEES APPLY
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