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Mill Valley Village - Gabriella Mautner Introduces Her New Book

When

Thu 01 / 23 / 2020
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM

Price

A Book Reading
Gabriella Mautner Introduces Her New Book
"Victor Nameless"
"Gabriella Mautner is a local treasure, an internationally recognized novelist and memoirist
who has distinguished herself with literary work of a rare and high caliber."
Michael Krasny, KQED Radio, San Francisco
 
Mill Valley Village is delighted to announce a very special event celebrating and introducing the newest book, Victor Nameless, by village member Gabriella Mautner. "A true story of love, hope against all odds, and redemption, set against the horror of the second World War, the Holocaust and the drama of refugees. Victor, a young German-Jewish musician, falls in love with Tatyana, a beautiful Jewish photographer from Yugoslavia. Unable to stay together, they promise to carry a torch for each other."
 
Gabriella was born in Chemnitz, Germany and spent her childhood there. At the onset of the Nazi regime, her family moved to Italy where she spent her early adolescence. When Italy became unsafe the family sought refuge in Holland. In 1942, disobeying a German command to report to a concentration camp, the family fled through the maze of Nazi-occupied Belgium and France, finally reaching safety in Switzerland. They subsequently arrived in the United States in 1946. Following her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in English/Creative Writing from San Francisco State University, Gabriella taught The Craft of Writing at the College of Marin and her alma mater, and was on the faculty of the Fromm Institute at the University of San Francisco for thirty-four years. 
 
Her other novels are Out of a Season, Lovers and Fugitives and Addio Positano. Her memoir The Good Place was published in both Germany and the U.S. She is also the recipient of a Milley Award from the City of Mill Valley for her literary achievements.
 
We hope you will join us at Scout Hall on Thursday, January 23rd at 1pm. Gabriella will not only give us some insight into her background and how it informed her literary works, but will have books for sale and be available to sign them after her reading.
 
Scout Hall's main entrance, which is at 30 Mountain View Avenue, is handicap accessible and leads right into the main hall where the event will be held. There is parking along Mountain View as well as around the corner on East Blithedale and the old main entrance (with steps) at 177 East Blithedale Avenue. Carpooling is encouraged. All are welcome.