Reading by Amy Bloom

Hoffmann + Campe Publisher Günter Berg (left) and Amy Bloom (right)

March 3, 2008. Author Amy Bloom read from her work Away, addressing more than 100 literature buffs at the Consulate General. Her story about a character that comes to America after her family was destroyed in a Russian pogrom and then embarks on an odyssey from New York to Alaska to find her daughter caught the audience's imagination. Passages of the German translation were read by well-known actress Maren Eggert. The reading, co-sponsored by publishing house Hoffmann + Campe, was part of the ongoing American Embassy Literature Series.