When:

Sunday, June 18, 2017

7.00 pm

Where:

The Hot House Restaurant & Bar

35 Church Street

Please join Ben McNally and McClelland and Stewart to celebrate the publication of Colm Tóibín’s latest novel, House of Names. 

Tickets are $110.00, for dinner and a copy of the book. We have moved our dinners to a new location, so there are some changes. Your ticket price at The Hot House includes a three-course dinner, unlimited non-alcoholic drinks, and all applicable taxes and service charge. There will be a cash bar.

Please plan to arrive at 7.00 to avoid the Hothouse Father’s Day brunch.

Tickets must be purchased in advance. Call us (416.361.0032) to reserve your place.

On the day of his daughter’s wedding, Agamemnon orders her sacrifice. His daughter is led to her death, and Agamemnon leads his army into battle, where he is rewarded with glorious victory.

Three years later, he returns home and finds his murderous action has set the entire family — mother, brother, sister — on a path of intimate violence, as they enter a world of hushed commands and soundless journeys through the palace’s dungeons and bedchambers. As his wife, Clytemnestra, seeks his death, his daughter, Electra, is the silent observer to the family’s game of innocence while his son, Orestes, is sent into bewildering, frightening exile where survival is far from certain. Out of their desolating loss, Electra and Orestes must find a way to right these wrongs of the past, even if it means committing themselves to a terrible, barbarous act.

Colm Toibin is an internationally acclaimed, award-winning author. His novels include The Master, winner of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Le prix du meilleur livre étranger, and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction; and Brooklyn, winner of the Costa Novel Award. He lives in Dublin, Ireland.