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Sylvia Brownrigg is the author of seven books of fiction including Pages for Her, published earlier this year by Picador (UK), and is a regular reviewer for the NY Times, the Guardian, and the TLS. A former teacher of Creative Writing at AUP, she will read from and discuss Invisible Countries, no.30 in the Cahiers Series edited by AUP鈥檚 Center for Writers & Translators. In this, a woman travels to seven 鈥榠nvisible鈥� countries, and from the moment of arrival is surprised, challenged, disturbed by what she discovers. In the brightly colored and somewhat sinister world that emerges, what is standard 鈥� passing through customs, checking in to a hotel, pronouncing words in a foreign language 鈥� becomes challenging, fraught; the traveler鈥檚 urge to escape and seek adventure vies with her sense of melancholy and anxiety at feeling unmoored. Brownrigg explores border-crossing, cultural misunderstanding, touristic voyeurism and naivety, as her visitor attempts to navigate the environments she encounters.