Award-winning French author Laurent Binet returns to the TIFA virtual stage to present Civilizations. From Viking explorers to Christopher Columbus’s fragile sense of superiority, Civilizations (translated to English by Sam Taylor) is an ambitious counterfactual history of the modern world. Join us for an entertaining talk with Binet – author of the international bestselling novel HHhH – on colonization, empire-building and the eternal human quest for domination.

Interviewer: Bilal Hashmi

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This event is generously supported by the French Embassy in Canada. Avec le soutien de l’Ambassade de France au Canada.