Reading for our times
Reading for our times
Usha Raman
Reading around the world
36 minutes Posted Jun 13, 2020 at 8:48 am.
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In this episode, Suroor Alikhan, host of the blog Talking about Books, takes us on a global reading tour. The six excerpts featured in the episode are by writers  from different regions of the world, from Argentina to Angola, from Jamaica to Poland, opening the page to very different literary traditions.

The books featured in this episode are:

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)

Go went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany)

Bestiarios by Julio Cortazar (Argentina)

The Lunatic by Anthony C Winkler (Jamaica)

The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (Angola)

The Book of Masks by Hwan Sun-won (South Korea)

If you’d like some reading recommendations, take a look at Suroor’s blog: https://talking-about-books.com