Causerie et lancement du roman de Nyla Matuk, « Leila and Khaled »
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Causerie et lancement du roman de Nyla Matuk, « Leila and Khaled » (House of Anansi, 2026) avec Sarah Nicole Prickett, le vendredi 23 octobre à la Librairie Féministe L’Euguélionne, située en face de la station de métro Beaudry. Nyla Matuk est poète et autrice montréalaise (Sumptuary Laws, Stranger, Resisting Canada). @nylamatuk Sarah Nicole Prickett est autrice, critique littéraire et d’art, éditrice, et organisatrice. Ses essais et ses critiques ont été publiés dans n+1, The New Inquiry et de nombreuses autres publications. Elle contribue régulièrement à Bookforum.Leila, a Palestinian Canadian film scholar, joins a delegation of academics on her first journey to Occupied Palestine. What begins as an intellectual pilgrimage becomes an intimate, destabilizing return to an ancestral land her family was exiled from. There, she meets Khaled—a younger Palestinian man who pulls her into a mesmeric trance of desire, curiosity, and confrontation. Their brief, charged affair unfolds in a landscape shaped by rupture and resistance, each of them bearing different inheritances of the same loss. Leila and Khaled is a love story and a reckoning—a lyrical, unflinching meditation on belonging, memory, and the enduring wounds of colonialism.