Yiyun Li | Music Against the Night: A Novel - Tuesday, October 20 at 7:00 PM at Parkway Central Library in Logan Square, Philadelphia

Yiyun Li | Music Against the Night: A Novel

Tuesday, October 20 at 7:00 PM·7:00 p.m.·Logan Square·Parkway Central Library·Parkway Central Library, 1901 Vine St, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19103, United States

Yiyun Li | Music Against the Night: A Novel

Yiyun Li | Music Against the Night: A Novel - Tuesday, October 20 at 7:00 PM at Parkway Central Library in Logan Square, Philadelphia

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The Author Events Series presents Yiyun Li in conversation with Weike Wang on her new novel Music Against the Night, which follows the 18th-century pianist John Field from Dublin to Russia and an orphaned girl from French India who escapes to Paris and Moscow. Li is the author of The Book of Goose and Wednesday's Child and won the 2026 Pulitzer Prize for Memoir or Autobiography. Tickets $5. Via Fr...

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