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February 2004

Shine On

If you previously considered the novel Madame Bovary by French author Gustave Flaubert to be a hopelessly old-fashioned tale of romantic disappointment, then Cathleen Shine’s new novel She is Me: A Novel, an “adaptation” of this classic 19th-century tale, is likely to change your opinion. When Elizabeth, an academic living in New York, is given the job of turning Emma Bovary’s story into a film script, she finds herself faced with a seemingly endless sequence of insurmountable tragic-comic events. Curious? Then you will be pleased to know that Shine will be reading excerpts from her novel (there will be a parallel reading of the German translation) at the Literaturhaus on Monday, February 9, at 8 pm. Tickets cost € 7. For more information visit www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de.

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