Life Histories

Hong Kong International Literary Festival
  • Sat 13-11-2021 4:00 PM - 1 h

Fringe Underground


Free Admission

Synopsis

The authors of two recent Hong Kong memoirs discuss the delicate balance of memory and storytelling required to capture one’s own life on the page.  In Rabbit in the Moon, Heather Diamond chronicles her mid-life reinvention and move from the U.S. to Hong Kong, involving intercultural marriage, language and cultural barriers and the importance of family.  In From Scalpel to Spade: A Surgeon’s Road to Ithaca, renowned Hong Kong surgeon Arthur van Langenberg describes his eventful 50-year career in medicine and his lifelong passion for gardening with equal fascinationThe conversation is moderated by Jane Ram, a writer and gardener and a Hong Kong resident for almost 60 years. 
 
This event is supported by the U.S. Consulate-General of Hong Kong and Macao
 
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Featuring
Heather Diamond, an American writer, has lived in Hong Kong since 2018.  She is the author of Rabbit in the Moon: A Memoir. 
 
Arthur van Langenberg has had an eventful life as a surgeon, and his special interest in gardening helps him to keep an even keel and tempers the stresses of a difficult profession.  Now close to retirement, he finds that surgery is giving way to gardening.
 
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