Tonight 5-11: Isabel Allende at Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall

Featured Event: 

Isabel Allende (Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall, @7:30pm, $25-$45):Literary Arts and Powell’s Books are pleased to welcome Isabel Allende to the Arlene Schnitzer Concert Hall to speak about her most recent novel,Island beneath the Sea (Harper), which chronicles the life of an unforgettable woman — a slave and concubine — from the sugar plantations of Saint-Domingue to the lavish parlors of New Orleans. Tickets available at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts and Ticketmaster.

Isabel Allende is the author of numerous books, including New York Times bestsellers The House of the Spirits and Daughter of Fortune. Allende’s books have been translated into over 27 languages, and transformed into plays, movies, ballets and operas all over the world.

Other Events:

Ann Hood (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): In China, there is a belief that people who are destined to be together are connected by an invisible red thread. From Ann Hood, the bests

elling author of The Knitting Circle, The Red Thread (W. W. Norton), a stirring portrait of unforgettable love and yearning for a baby.

Science Fiction Book Group (Powells Books at Cedar Hills Crossing, @7:00pm): This month we meet to discuss the John Carter of Mars seriesby Edgar Rice Burroughs. Join us!

52 Loaves (Powells City of Books, @7:30pm): An original take on a 6,000-year-old staple of life, William Alexander’s 52 Loaves (Algonquin) explores the nature of obsession, the meditative quality of ritual, and the mysterious instinct that makes every person, regardless of culture or society, respond to the aroma of baking bread.