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Last broadcast on Thu, 19 Aug 2010, 16:00 on BBC Radio 4 (FM only) (see all broadcasts).
Synopsis
Aminatta Forna talks to the award-winning Nigerian novelist Helon Habila about his new book, Oil on Water. She also explores the different ways in which men and women incorporate domesticity in to their fiction, with the help of novelists Louise Doughty and Tim Lott. Plus, a guide to work of Nobel laureate Jose Saramago, who died earlier this year, and whose book The Elephant's Journey has just been published posthumously.
Producer: Aasiya Lodhi.
BOOK LIST
HELON HABILA
Oil on Water
Publisher: Penguin
Measuring Time
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
Waiting for an Angel
Publisher: Hamish Hamilton
WRITING DOMESTICITY
Louise Doughty: Whatever You Love
Publisher: Faber
Tim Lott: Fearless
Publisher: Walker Books
Anne Tyler: The Amateur Marriage
Publisher: Chatto
Anne Tyler: The Accidental Tourist
Publisher: Vintage
John Updike: Rabbit, Run
Publisher: Penguin
John Updike: Rabbit Redux
Publisher: Penguin
John Updike: Rabbit is Rich
Publisher: Penguin
John Updike: Rabbit at Rest
Publisher: Penguin
JOSE SARAMAGO
The Elephant's Journey
Publisher: Harvill Secker
Blindness
Publisher: The Harvill Press
The Gospel According to Jesus Christ
Publisher: The Harvill Press
Chapters
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Chapter 1
Aminatta Forna talks to the award-winning Nigerian novelist Helon Habila about his new book, Oil on Water.
Broadcasts
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Sun 15 Aug 201016:00
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Thu 19 Aug 201016:00
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