Discover Sooke

Join Luisa Maria Celis as she reads from her new novel, Arrows

Saturday May 30th, Reading Room Cafe, Sooke

Time: 3:30pm

ARROWS: Based on the chronicles of José de Oviedo y Baños, a colonial historian, Luisa Maria Celis’ deeply moving, action-packed novel realistically depicts the subjugation of indigenous peoples, but it is also a love story of hope and the possibilities for redemption. The setting is Venezuela, but the context is the human heart.

luisaBIOGRAPHY: Luisa Maria was born in Caracas, Venezuela and moved to Canada in 2000. Arrows was written over a nine-year-period and required extensive research in South America. “More of this story is true than most people will want to believe,” she says, “which explains why I had to write it.”

PRAISE: “I am astonished by Arrows. Here is a quintessential conquest novel for all three Americas—North, Central and South.” —Alan Twigg, BC Bookworld

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Filed under: Upcoming Events on May 28th, 2009