Rencontre between David Park and Cécile Arnaud

In the final months of the Vietnam War, Michael Miller, a young American diplomat based in Saigon, is recruited for the CIA. Forty years later, Miller is living a peaceful, if lonely, retirement when he comes to understand that he is going to have accomplish one last mission. One that will plunge him back into long-suppressed memories... to face a final accounting for what was done. Enriched by David Park's elegant writing, Spies in Canaan (2022) is a disturbing novel about guilt and redemption, where personal wounds mingle with geopolitical turmoil. On the occasion of its publication in French translation (Editions de La Table Ronde), this evening also offers David the chance to talk with his translator Cécile Arnaud who won the 2023 CCI and Literature Ireland Translation Prize for the mesmerising Voyage en territoire inconnu/ Travelling in a Strange Land (2018), the author's first novel to be published in French.

For Spies in Canaan: 'One of the most powerful and probing novels so far this year' (Financial Times)

Copies of the French translation on sale at the CCI this evening by Les Traversées bookshop.