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The 26th Annual Cherie Smith JCCGV

Jewish Book Festival

November 20-25, 2010

SUNDAY october 24

Special Pre-Festival Event
Writer's Salon
Yann Martel
Beatrice & Virgil

SUNDAY OCT 24
4:00-6:00PM | at the home of Deborah Roitberg & Jack Amar (Granville & 16th)
$118.00 - includes signed copy of the book Beatrice & Virgil and a tax receipt.

Purchase Tickets online >>
or call 604.257.5111

or call 604.257.5111


Presenting partner

Meet master storyteller and Booker Prize winner YANN MARTEL, author of Life of Pi and Beatrice & Virgil as he reads from his new bestseller Beatrice & Virgil.

This special event includes hors d'oeuvres, a tax receipt, and most importantly, a chance for intimate conversation with Martel about the astonishing themes and perspectives in his writing. more...

   
TUESDAY november 9

Special Pre-Festival Event
Report from Israel
Martin Fletcher
Walking Israel

TUESDAY NOV 9
8:00PM | Norman Rothstein Theatre
$18.00

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Presenting partners

Martin Fletcher, long-time NBC Bureau Chief in Tel Aviv, has seen war, famine, killings and tragedy in his nearly four decades as a highly respected war correspondent and bureau chief. In 2008, he took on a different assignment, one that changed the outlook of this veteran newsman in a way he never saw coming. Instead of walking into a war zone, Martin Fletcher walked into the soul of a nation. more...
 
SUNDAY november 21

Special Event
The inaugural Sol and Shirley Kort Author Series

A Unique View of the World
Gary Shteyngart
Super Sad True Love Story
Host: Eleanor Wachtel

SUNDAY NOV 21
7:30PM | Norman Rothstein Theatre
$21.00 / $19.00 student & senior (tax incl.)

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Presenting partner


“It’s not easy to summarize Shteyngart; there’s so much satirical gunpowder packed into every sentence that the effect gets lost in the short version. This is a love story [that is] ridiculously witty and painfully prescient.” —Time

Wildly funny, rich, and humane, Gary Steyngart’s new novel, Super Sad True Love Story is a masterful book in which falling in love just may redeem a planet falling apart. more...

 
TUESDAY november 23

Special Event
for Book Clubs and Book Lovers

Myla Goldberg   
Bee Season
The False Friend
Host: Sheryl MacKay

TUESDAY NOV 23
8:00PM
$12.00

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Author, Myla Goldberg talks about her national best seller, Bee Season (2000) and her upcoming book, The False Friend (Oct 2010) in a special event tailor-made for book clubs and book lovers. Whether your book club has only one member (you), or fifteen, is ‘real’ or ‘faux’, everyone is welcome to attend. Popular CBC host, Sheryl MacKay, hosts the evening. more...

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