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Reading Europe

Alba Arikha

Duration: 15 minutes

First broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 FMLatest broadcast: on BBC Radio 4 LW

Available for over a year

Five European writers visit a favourite bookshop to explore how issues preoccupying their societies are being reflected by contemporary novelists.

Today, the Franco-American writer Alba Arikha reflects on whether long-term immigration is causing an identity crisis in her country's contemporary fiction.

Producer: Beaty Rubens. Show less

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