{"title": "Eve Guerra and Gaël Faye on Loss and Homecoming", "start": "2026-10-29T19:00:00Z", "end": null, "place": "Institut français du Royaume-Uni (Language Centre)", "address": "Cromwell Place 13, London", "price": "£10, conc. £8, students £5", "price_from": "10.00", "price_to": "10.00", "tickets_url": "https://cinelumiere.savoysystems.co.uk/CineLumiere.dll/TSelectItems.waSelectItemsPrompt.TcsWebMenuItem_600.TcsWebTab_601.TcsPerformance_6964148.TcsSection_1931314", "category": "talks-readings", "tags": ["history/colonialism", "literature/books"], "description": "An evening of conversation around heritage and belonging, marking the English-language launch of Ève Guerra's debut novel Repatriation and a discussion of Gaël Faye's second novel Jacaranda. The two authors will be in conversation with writer and critic Oonagh Devitt Tremblay as part of the French Institute's Black History Month. In Repatriation, a young French-Congolese woman brings her father's body back from Cameroon, uncovering colonial history and family silences; in Jacaranda, a young man raised in France seeks the family history his Rwandan mother has kept from him. 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Two London Irish Nigerian brothers, the poet and playwright Gabriel Gbadamosi and the retired storyteller David Gbadamosi, evoke the life of their older brother Storm, a gay black Irishman, and pay tribute to their younger brother Nick. Blending family memories and London lives with humour, tenderness and honesty, it is part memoir, part performance and part celebration of identity, belonging and bonds that endure across loss, with musicians The Quiery Brothers, Nessan and Eoin, with Gary Lilburn and friends.", "url": "https://noky.io/en/london/events/storm-an-irish-nigerian-family-story-41565/", "official_url": "https://irishculturalcentre.co.uk/event/storm-an-irish-nigerian-family-story/", "image": "https://noky.io/images/7252f457e1657c92c2d0e762b559c5591eb34a07693dcc27b753c4bb9e49c1a3-2000.webp"}]}