Westbeth Gallery: Suzanne Ruta Reading

Suzanne Ruta reads from her timely novel

TO ALGERIA, WITH LOVE
(Virago UK, Trafalgar US 2012)

Tues Oct 16, 2012 at 7 PM,
in the Gallery at Westbeth
55 Bethune St, betw Washington & West

“enthralling and entertaining tale”— Booklist, May 30, 2012

“To Algeria, With Love” tells a painful story, but in Ruta’s deft hands it also manages to be a hopeful one.” Sunday Times Book Review, August 19, 2012
Also published by Einaudi, Italy as La Repubblica di Wally

Suzanne Ruta will read from her timely novel To Algeria, with Love
on October 16th, 2012 in the Westbeth gallery at 7 PM . She promises to make it quick, so people can go home to see the presidential debate on TV.

The novel is a love story with a political subtext, a protest against the Iraq war, the conduct of the war on terror, and a lot of nonsense published after 9/11 about the clash of civilizations.

Suzanne Ruta is an author,translator and critic.
Her story collection Stalin in the Bronx, was a N.Y. Times notable book of the year. She has published translations, essays and reviews in Bookforum, NY Times Book Review, the VLS, Newsday, Grand Street, Womens Review of Books, Entertainment Weekly, Words without Borders, and many others. She has also worked as an immigrants right activist in several venues. She is married to painter Peter Ruta, whose work – paintings from 1950 to 2012 will be on exhibition in the gallery at the time of the reading.