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Jonathan Safran Foer

Open Book: Jonathan Safran Foer

12/09/2016

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Jonathan Safran Foer

Mariella Frostrup talks to novelist Jonathan Safran Foer.

In a special edition of the programme, Mariella Frostrup talks to award-winning writer Jonathan Safran Foer about his new novel Here I Am.

Jonathan Safran Foer burst onto the literary scene at the age of twenty five - his first book Everything is Illuminated was playful, experimental and much praised. 
Now nearing 40, he's publishing his third novel, Here I Am, which brings together two distinct strands: the story of a disintegrating marriage in Washington, played out against the backdrop of an earthquake in Israel and war in the Middle East. 
In a frank and fascinating interview he talks to Mariella Frostrup about combining the two narratives in Here I Am, why he thinks of this as the least autobiographical, but most personal, of his novels, and why it took him ten years to write.

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