Harriet Gilbert talks to Andrea Levy about Small Island, a heart-warming and tale of love and immigration during World War II.
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The world's great authors discuss their best-known novel.
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Folge vom 06.02.2010World Book Club: Andrea Levy
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Folge vom 02.01.2010Kiran DesaiHarriett Gilbert talks to Indian writer Kiran Desai about her internationally bestselling work The Inheritance of Loss. Winner of the Man Booker prize in 2006, Desai’s novel is a profoundly moving cross-continental saga that sweeps around the globe from the Himalayas to New York City to Cambridge in the UK. Reflecting the author’s own Indian-American upbringing the novel interweaves the grand disruptions of politics with the domestic lives and loves of three memorable characters, the morose judge, his lovelorn granddaughter Sai and their devoted, long-suffering cook.
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Folge vom 05.12.2009World Book Club: James EllroyJames Ellroy discusses his novel American Tabloid with Harriett Gilbert and an invited audience.
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Folge vom 07.11.2009World Book Club: Alaa Al AswanyHarriett Gilbert talks to acclaimed Egyptian writer Alaa Al-Aswany about his bestselling novel The Yacoubian Building. It was the Arab world’s number-one bestseller for five years running after it was published in 2002. The Yacoubian Building interweaves the stories of a group of diverse characters who live and work in downtown Cairo. A moving study of politics and power, sex and revenge - centred on the apartment building - the Yacoubian building, which still stands in Cairo today.The novel offers a compelling yet daringly scathing portrayal of modern Egypt since the Revolution of 1952.