Venue: The Courthouse - Meath County Council Stage
The ongoing and unfailingly brutish civil conflict in Syria, a proxy war for the usual superpower suspects, provides the backdrop for The Beekeeper of Aleppo, a work of fiction that has been compared to The Kite Runner and The Tattooist of Auschwitz. Its sweep also encompasses the continuing European refugee crisis as Nuri, a beekeeper from the beleaguered city of Aleppo and his wife Afra, an artist, experience a radical decline in their fortunes as a result of the internecine conflict and, like millions of their countrymen and women, are forced to flee. Christy Lefteri is herself the child of Cypriot refugees. Her first novel, A Watermelon, A Fish and a Bible, is set during the 1974 Turkish invasion of Cyprus. She works as a lecturer in creative writing at Brunel University in London. Christy Lefteri will be in conversation with broadcaster Deirdre Hurley.
