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Last broadcast on Thu, 16 Jul 2009, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only) (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Mariella Frostrup talks to Marina Lewycka, whose spectacular debut at the age of 58 was the bestselling A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian. She explains why she's turned her attention from tractors to adhesives (as well as old age, relationships and the Arab-Israeli question) in her new novel We Are All Made of Glue.
There's news from Andrew Purcell in New York of a surprise posthumous book by Ernest Hemingway - his Paris memoirs have been published in a new version by the author's grandson.
And Lawrence Norfolk joins Mariella to give a novelist's-eye view of the strange and wonderful work of Franz Kafka, three of whose best-known books have been reissued in new translations.
Books List
Marina Lewycka: We Are All Made of Glue
Publisher: Fig Tree
Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian
Publisher: Penguin
Marina Lewycka: Two Caravans
Publisher: Penguin
Franz Kafka, trans. Joyce Crick: The Metamorphosis and other stories
Publisher: OUP
Franz Kafka, trans. Anthea Bell: The Castle
Publisher: OUP
Franz Kafka, trans. Mike Mitchell: The Trial
Publisher: OUP
Franz Kafka, trans. Michael Hofmann: Amerika
Publisher: Penguin
Chapters
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Chapter 1
Mariella Frostrup meets Marina Lewycka, author of A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.
Broadcasts
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Sun 12 Jul 200916:00
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Thu 16 Jul 200916:00
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