GILES FODEN
reads from his new novel TURBULENCE
presented by ETB and Aufbau-Verlag
GÖTZ SCHUBERT liest aus der deutschen Übersetzung DIE GEOMETRIE DER WOLKEN, die am 27. Februar im AUFBAUVERLAG erscheint.
Der Abend wird moderiert von SIGRID LÖFFLER.
a "Turbulence" review from THE GUARDIAN HERE
TURBULENCE: The D-Day landings: the fate of two and half million men, three thousand landing-craft and the entire future of Europe depends on the right weather conditions in the English Channel on a single day. A team of Allied scientists is charged with agreeing an accurate forecast five days in advance. But is it even possible to predict the weather so far ahead? And what is the relationship between predictability and turbulence, one of the last great mysteries of modern physics?
Wallace Ryman has devised a system that comprehends all of this - but he is a reclusive pacifist who stubbornly refuses to divulge his secrets. Henry Meadows, a young maths prodigy from the Met Office, is sent to Scotland to discover Ryman's system and apply it to the Normandy landings. But turbulence proves more elusive than anyone could have imagined, and events, like the weather, begin to spiral out of control.
Giles Foden was born in Warwickshire in 1967 but grew up mostly in Africa. Educated at Fitzwilliam and St John’s Colleges Cambridge, where he held the Harper-Wood studentship in creative writing, he was then for three years an assistant editor of the Times Literary Supplement. Between 1995 and 2006 he worked on the books pages of the Guardian. His novel The Last King of Scotland, published in 1998, won a Whitbread First Novel Award and the Somerset Maugham Prize. It has recently been made into a feature film starring Forest Whitaker and won several BAFTAs including The Alexander Korda Award for the Outstanding British Film of the Year. Foden has published two other novels, Ladysmith and Zanzibar, and a work of narrative non-fiction, Mimi and Toutou Go Forth. He is currently AHRC Fellow in Creative and Performing Arts at Royal Holloway, University of London.