TalksTalks
Venue
Southbank Centre
Date
Tue 22 Oct 2024
Time
7:30 pm
Subtitles
Live Subtitled in house by Southbank Centre
Keanu Reeves: The Book of Elsewhere image
Synopsis:

Join us to celebrate the release of a mind-blowing epic from Keanu Reeves and China Miéville, inspired by the bestselling BRZRKR comic books, with Reeves himself.
 
At this event, Reeves introduces The Book of Elsewhere, the enthralling new novel set in the world of the BRZRKR comic series created by the multi-talented actor with writer Matt Kindt and artist Ron Garney.
 
The Book of Elsewhere follows an immortal warrior on a millennia-long quest to discover the key to his immortality – and perhaps, a way to free himself from it.
 
‘She said, We needed a tool. So I asked the gods.’
 
There have always been whispers. Legends. The warrior who cannot be killed. Who’s seen a thousand civilizations rise and fall. He has had many names: Unute, Child of Lightning, Death himself. These days, he’s known simply as ‘B’. And he wants to be able to die.
 
In the present day, a US black-ops group has promised him they can help with that. And all he needs to do is help them in return. But when an all-too-mortal soldier comes back to life, the impossible event ultimately points toward a force even more mysterious than B himself. One at least as strong. And one with a plan all its own.
 
In a collaboration that combines Miéville’s singular style and creativity with Reeves’s haunting and soul- stirring narrative, these two inimitable artists have created something utterly unique, sure to delight existing fans and to create scores of new ones.