Heavenly Pleasures

Catherine Millet, Florian Zeller and Leila Aboulela

‘Heavenly Pleasures' explores representations of love across cultures: from East to West, from the physical to the spiritual. Featuring French writer Catherine Millet, whose internationally best-selling memoir, The Sexual Life of Catherine M, was dubbed ‘ ... a manifesto of our times', and Florian Zeller, who explores the relationship between the West and Islam from the point of view of a young man on a quest for pleasure in his novel, The Fascination of Evil. Joining them is Leila Aboulela, a Sudanese writer whose celebrated novel The Translator looks at the difficulty of loving someone of another faith. This event is chaired by Lisa Appignanesi, award-winning author of Freud's Women and Unholy Loves and President of English PEN.

‘A story of love and faith all the more moving for the restraint with which it is written' J. M. Coetzee on Leila Aboulela's The Translator

‘With this novel Zeller confirms his place among the best authors of his generation' Le Spectacle du Monde on Florian Zeller's The Fascination of Evil

(Photos: Catherine Millet, and Florian Zeller by Arnaud Fevrier of Flammarion)