PP Wong
"This popular returning event is like witnessing a live recording of your favourite literary podcast—no headphones required. Seasoned Globe and Mail journalist Marsha Lederman conducts back-to-back interviews with the authors of some of the most talked-about novels of the season.
PP Wong’s Canada Reads-longlisted dystopian thriller, Slice the Water, explores the amplifying impacts of technology in a military dictatorship ruled by a book-burning king."
Is time an illusion? Are any of us every really safe or free?
This year’s fiction panel brings together Madeleine Thien, Maria Reva and PP Wong's insightful takes on these questions against a backdrop of war and displacement ... In PP Wong’s satirical second novel, Slice the Water, a freedom fighter leaves his homeland, run by a book-burning king, only to find that the peaceful nation he immigrates to is under a more dubious, technology-based threat. The conversation that arises from this thought-provoking novel is sure to inspire.
