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Titaua Peu & Jeffrey Zuckerman present "Pina," with Nell Freudenberger

Tahitian author Titaua Peu and translator Jeffrey Zuckerman join us, in conversation with Nell Freudenberger, to present the novel "Pina," out now from Restless Books. This virtual event is brought to you in partnership with our friends at Librairie Albertine. To purchase a copy of the book: https://www.communitybookstore.net/it... About the book: Winner of the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize & the 2019 French Voices Grand Prize From award-winning Tahitian author Titaua Peu comes "Pina," a devastating novel about a family torn apart by secrets and the legacy of colonialism and held together by nine-year-old Pina, a girl shouldering the immeasurable weight of her family’s traumas. Far from Tahiti’s postcard-perfect beaches, Ma and Auguste and five of their nine children live a hand-to-mouth life in destitute, run-down Tenaho. Nine-year-old Pina, abused and neglected in equal measure, is the keeper of her family’s secrets, though the weight of this knowledge soon proves to be a burden no child could ever bear. A victim of her father’s alcoholic rages and the object of her mother’s anger and indifference, Pina protects her younger sister, Moïra, as best she can. But, one day, a tragic accident upsets the precarious equilibrium of the family, setting them on a path to destruction. The fault lines of her family, descendants of Mā’ohii warriors who once fended off European settlers, begin to shift and crack open, laying bare how the past shapes and haunts the present: her brother Pauro falls in love with a Frenchman, her sister Rosa sinks into sexual exploitation as a futile means of escape, her eldest brother August Junior’s addictions and temper may lead him into ruin, and Hannah, the oldest daughter who had escaped to France, is beckoned back home, fearing the worst. Elegantly translated from the French by Jeffrey Zuckerman, "Pina" introduces a bold and profoundly humane anticolonial writer. It’s a gut punch of a novel that traces the history of a family, an island, and a people, reaching back to a time before colonial rule and stretching into an imagined, hopeful future of independence and autonomy, offering the promise of redemption. About our guests: Titaua Peu is a Tahitian author known for her politically charged, realistic portrayal of the effects of colonialism on contemporary Polynesia. Peu’s unsparing first novel, "Mutismes," was published in 2003, sparking immediate scandal and making her the youngest-ever published Tahitian author at age twenty-eight. "Pina" was awarded the 2017 Eugène Dabit Prize, a first for Polynesian literature. She currently lives in Tahiti where she serves as the general manager of the municipality of Paea. Jeffrey Zuckerman is a translator of French, including books by the artists Jean-Michel Basquiat and the Dardenne brothers, the queer writers Jean Genet and Hervé Guibert, and the Mauritian novelists Ananda Devi, Shenaz Patel, and Carl de Souza. A graduate of Yale University, he has been a finalist for the TA First Translation Prize and the French-American Foundation Translation Prize, and he was awarded the French Voices Grand Prize for his translation of "Pina." In 2020 he was named a Chevalier in the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He currently lives in New York City. Nell Freudenberger is the author of three novels, most recently "Lost and Wanted," and the short story collection, "Lucky Girls." Her fiction and nonfiction has been published in the New Yorker, Harpers, and the New York Times. Ellen Sowchek is an ATA-certified French-to-English translator and interpreter, who’s worked in film, literature, and beyond.