Robert F. Delaney on The Wounded Muse

Join us at Book Culture LIC as Robert F. Delaney discusses his new novel The Wounded Muse on Wednesday, November 7th at 7pm!

Qiang returns to his homeland of China from Silicon Valley to find Beijing undergoing a chaotic transformation in the lead up to hosting the 2008 Olympic Games. Wrecking balls are knocking down entire neighborhoods to make way for new structures more in line with the government’s vision of a modern China. The tumult inspires Qiang to shoot a documentary about the loss of affordable housing, which draws the attention of public security officials. When Qiang is suddenly arrested by local police, it falls on his friend Jake, an American journalist who admires Qiang and his work, to try to figure out how to end the detention. With few options, Jake enlists the help of those he’s not sure he can trust. Dawei, a Chinese itinerant Jake befriended years earlier, returns to Beijing in the midst of a cat-and-mouse game Jake is playing with the authorities to retrieve a memento that has suddenly become extremely valuable. Dawei becomes ensnared in a plan to force the authorities to release Qiang, and Jake must then decide who survives. Based on real events, Robert F. Delaney’s The Wounded Muse takes readers to a city and country undergoing a transformation on a scale previously unseen, where in the shadowed wreckage of forgotten communities people are pushed to psychological extremes to secure their position.


Robert F. Delaney is an award winning author and journalist. He has been covering China as a journalist for Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg News, and South China Morning Post since 1995. His collection of short memoirs, Route 1 to China, received first runner-up in the University of Toronto–Penguin Random House Creative Writing Competition. The Wounded Muse is his first novel.











When: Wed., Nov. 7, 2018 at 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Where: Book Culture LIC
26-09 Jackson Ave.
718-440-3120
Price: Free
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Join us at Book Culture LIC as Robert F. Delaney discusses his new novel The Wounded Muse on Wednesday, November 7th at 7pm!

Qiang returns to his homeland of China from Silicon Valley to find Beijing undergoing a chaotic transformation in the lead up to hosting the 2008 Olympic Games. Wrecking balls are knocking down entire neighborhoods to make way for new structures more in line with the government’s vision of a modern China. The tumult inspires Qiang to shoot a documentary about the loss of affordable housing, which draws the attention of public security officials. When Qiang is suddenly arrested by local police, it falls on his friend Jake, an American journalist who admires Qiang and his work, to try to figure out how to end the detention. With few options, Jake enlists the help of those he’s not sure he can trust. Dawei, a Chinese itinerant Jake befriended years earlier, returns to Beijing in the midst of a cat-and-mouse game Jake is playing with the authorities to retrieve a memento that has suddenly become extremely valuable. Dawei becomes ensnared in a plan to force the authorities to release Qiang, and Jake must then decide who survives. Based on real events, Robert F. Delaney’s The Wounded Muse takes readers to a city and country undergoing a transformation on a scale previously unseen, where in the shadowed wreckage of forgotten communities people are pushed to psychological extremes to secure their position.


Robert F. Delaney is an award winning author and journalist. He has been covering China as a journalist for Dow Jones Newswires, Bloomberg News, and South China Morning Post since 1995. His collection of short memoirs, Route 1 to China, received first runner-up in the University of Toronto–Penguin Random House Creative Writing Competition. The Wounded Muse is his first novel.

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