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Open Book: Benjamin Myers, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Valeria Luiselli

18/08/2019

Benjamin Myers, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Valeria Luiselli

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, Benjamin Myers, Proust's In Search of Lost Time, Valeria Luiselli

Benjamin Myers discusses his latest novel The Offing.

Benjamin Myers discusses his latest novel The Offing, Philip Hensher and Belinda Jack on Proust's In Search of Lost Time, and Valeria Luiselli discusses The Lost Children Archive

Benjamin Myers discusses his eighth novel The Offing. Set in Robin Hood's Bay at the end of the Second World War, it tells the story of 16 year old Robert and the unlikely friendship he forms with an eccentric older woman.

Ahead of a major new Radio 4 adaptation of Proust's In Search of Lost Time by the playwright Timberlake Wertenbaker, Proust fans Philip Hensher and Belinda Jack explain the enduring appeal of this famously difficult novel.

And Mexican writer Valeria Luiselli has been nominated for the Booker Prize for her novel The Lost Children Archive. She describes how it was prompted by the stories of unaccompanied children crossing the US Mexico border in the summer of 2014.

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