Meet Author Mark Winkler
Luncheon at Buitenverwachting Restaurant
Thursday 22ndNovember 2018 – 12 Noon for 12h30
Guest speaker Mark Winkler is the author of critically acclaimed novels; An Exceptionally Simple Theory (of Absolutely Everything); Wasted and The Safest Place You Know (shortlisted for the Sunday Times Barry Ronge Fiction Prize). His work is also published in the United States and in France. He lives in Cape Town.
Winkler was born in Johannesburg and grew up in what is now Mpumalanga; he attended high school at St. Alban's College, Pretoria and graduated from Rhodes University with a Bachelor of Journalism in. Like the main character in his new book, critically acclaimed writer Mark Winkler was also moved to create a novel after discovering a box of old letters.
The Book
In Theo & Flora, Winkler tells the story of a stalled novelist called Charlie Wasserman who, when his investment-banker wife divorces him, finds among her belongings a box of letters. Written between 1940 and 1944, the letters reveal a love affair between her grandfather, Theo, a forty-something lawyer at the time, and Flora, a much younger journalist.
Theo & Flora is a narrative enriched by Cape Town’s Jewish community at the time, with cameos by prominent South African visual artists like Irma Stern, Jean Welz and Gregoire Boonzaier, and numerous references to classical music that complements the book’s elegant prose. Not only a period piece, the novel also registers the world’s current political climate – from immigration politics to issues of cultural appropriation. Written with wit and poignancy, Theo & Flora is as moving as it is entertaining and the novel is a gratifying addition to this author’s body of work.
Talented Chef/Patron Edgar Osojnik will be creating a delicious gastronomic delight for our palates which will be accompanied by Buitenverwachting’s elegant wines. The menu will be circulated as soon as I have it. The price per person is R440 fully inclusive.
Please contact Sandy on email sandybailey@telkomsa.net or telephone 021 685 8016 for any further information or to book.
