“Beguiling, and even crazily enchanting… Clement writes a poet’s prose, spare and simple.” – New York Times Book Review

Jennifer Clement is a leading chronicler of contemporary Mexico; her narrative journalism, spanning the divide between fiction and reality, includes three “nonfiction novels” translated into 24 languages and garnering international acclaim, such as the New York Times Editor’s Choice, the PEN/Faulkner Prize shortlist, the Orange Prize shortlist, the NEA Fellowship for Literature and the Canongate Prize; she is a Santa Maddalena Fellow and member of Mexico’s prestigious “Sistema Nacional de Creadores”. As president of Pen Mexico her work focused on the disappearance and killing of journalists.

Clement will be discussing her Prayers for the Stolen, a startling tale of a young girl abducted into the Mexican drug trade, it is the fictionalised result of ten years of interviews and undercover reportage with the women of Mexico’s jails and rural border communities. Their stories have brought to light for the first time the scale of the regional abductions: 800,000 girls are stolen and trafficked across international borders every year, feeding the international drugs trade and sex industry. A problem so widespread, and yet unspoken of, that desperate parents resort to hiding their children underground: “warrens” of girls living under the border territory.

“Compelling…Just beautiful…Really, really beautiful.” – NPR

“Clement shows the black comedy in the details and the emergency in the broader picture…There is a chance that fiction can make
a difference.” – The Telegraph

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Tickets 11,000Huf per person, includes aperitif, three course set menu, wine (in recognition of Hungarian Day of the Child on 31/05/15, 2,000huf of each ticket is donated to the UNICEF emergency fund for the children of Nepal)
Tickets must be booked in advance, please contact: rosie.apponyi@icloud.com
Signed books available on the night: in Hungarian though Libri Kiadó in English through Bestsellers (copies in stock now if you’d like to read in advance)

Address: Soroksári útca 26, Budapest 1095 (for access after 7pm please use entrance on Dandár útca 1)
7:00pm Apéritifs in the Distillery (& tours of the Unicum Cellars if you wish!)
8:00pm Jennifer Clement reading in the Distillery
8:30pm Dinner in the Museum
10:15pm Unicum & coffee in the distillery

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With thanks to the Zwack Family for the generous donation of the Unicum Distillery for the evening.