Ioana Pârvulescu's "Jonah and His Daughter" Launches at Barbican Library

Award-winning Romanian author Ioana Pârvulescu and former BBC World Service journalist George Stănică will discuss "Jonah and His Daughter", the latest book by Ioana Pârvulescu to be translated into English by Alistair Ian Blyth for Istros Books, hot off the printing press. This event is organised by the Romanian Cultural Institute in London, Istros Books and Barbican Library. Do not miss this journey into the most profound depths of literature, its sources of inspiration and the strive to present one's work to increasingly larger audiences through translation!

Jonah and His Daughter offers us an affectionate and vivid account of the reluctant, recalcitrant prophet Jonah, passed down from mother to daughter over the course of thousands of years, from the eighth century B.C. to the present day. In a sweeping narrative that pans out from the ancient port of Jaffa in the eastern Mediterranean to the modern-day cities of Prague, Munich,…