How to Break a System

Babak Lakghomi and Moez Surani

3:00pm

Sunday, September 24, 2023

60 mins

Myth and lore underpin two powerful new novels confronting corruption, greed and the complex forces that shape the world.

In Moez Surani’s The Legend of Baraffo, a young boy grapples with the age-old question – is it better to break the system entirely, or work to change it from within? In Babak Lakghomi’s South, similar questions arise when a journalist is sent to report on strikes taking place on an offshore oil rig.

Laced with superstition and brimming with tension, Surani and Lakghomi take the stage to discuss their stories of revolution, systemic change and the best way to break an already broken system.

Moderated by Victoria Hetherington.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

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Myth and lore underpin two powerful new novels confronting corruption, greed and the complex forces that shape the world.

Laced with superstition and brimming with tension, Surani and Lakghomi take the stage to discuss their stories of revolution, systemic change and the best way to break an already broken system.

Moderated by Victoria Hetherington.

This event will be followed by a book signing.

Conversation

Featured Authors

Babak Lakghomi

Babak Lakghomi is the author of Floating Notes. His fiction has appeared in American Short Fiction, NOON, Ninth Letter, New York Tyrant and Green Mountains Review, and has been translated into Italian and Farsi. Babak was born in Tehran, Iran, and currently lives and writes in Toronto.