vendredi 4 septembre
16h30
60 minutes
Lives in Retrospect: Stories from Columbia and Haiti
English programme
Thème fort
Château de Morges, caves
Dimitry Elias Léger
Dimitry Elias Léger is the author of God Loves Haiti, a finalist for the PEN Open Book Award. His writing has appeared in The New York Times, Time, Fortune, Granta, The Miami Herald, Literary Hub, The Millions, and The Source. Beyond his writing, Léger studied geopolitics at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government and served as an advisor to the United Nations for a decade. He lives between Brooklyn, Geneva, and Martinique.
Death of the Soccer God (Macmillan)
A global soccer star’s epic ride to the 1950 World Cup places him in shooting distance of his dreams and his own death in Dimitry Elias Léger’s Death of the Soccer God, a roaring Panamerican adventure about the unattainability of the dreams that govern our lives. Energized with a high-voltage fervor of a packed stadium, this is a story of fame and fate bursting with the vivid excitement and thrill of watching world class athletes perform at their very best. Léger summons the wrath, the mercy, and the mercuriousness of the gods. It is a love story about soccer, about our heroes and their foes, and a singular flex of literary talent.