Jewish Book Festival: Author Talk with Marina Sonkina
Tue, May 12
|Coquitlam
One Thousand and A Night: As Told by Larissa, Ukrainian Construction Shock Worker. Tuesday, May 12, 7:00pm
Time & Location
May 12, 2026, 7:00 p.m. – 11:00 p.m.
Coquitlam, Coquitlam, BC, Canada
About the event
Come join us for an Author Talk in collaboration with the Jewish Book Festival!
MARINA SONKINA / One Thousand and A Night: As Told by Larissa, Ukrainian Construction Shock Worker
The novel is both a comic and tragic saga of a Ukrainian-Russian -Jewish family, headed by the irreverent eighty-year-old Larissa, whose vitality and wit overcome all the hurdles thrown her way by the Soviet regime. Both lighthearted and dark, this tale of suffering and love takes us to Ukraine, Russia, Montenegro and Canada.
MARINA SONKINA is a scholar, a former CBC producer, and the author of six collections of short stories. She teaches at SFU in the Liberal Arts Program 55+.