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Open Book: David Grossman, Richard Beard, The Sea Library

David Grossman, Richard Beard, The Sea Library

BBC Radio 4 - Open Book, David Grossman, Richard Beard, The Sea Library

Johny Pitts talks to Israeli writer David Grossman about his latest novel More Than I Love My Life.

Johny Pitts talks to the International Booker winning writer David Grossman about his latest novel, More Than I Love My Life.  The story of three generations of women shaped by the echoes of love and war, and explores themes of intergenerational trauma, imperfect love, and how to heal broken relationships. It’s a journey from Israel to Croatia in search of a truth lurking in one family’s shadows. 

The final part of Richard Beard's series of essays on the look of a book. He's been exploring the visual clues which give readers a sense of what kind of a book it is going to be, even before they start to read. This week he’s basking in the experimental exploring books that confuse and defy expectation.

And we head to a small coastal town in Latvia to find out about The Sea Library. Founder Anna Iltnere tells us how her tiny personal project has grown into an online and physical haven for book - and sea - lovers from across the world.

Presenter: Johny Pitts
Producer: Kirsten Locke

Book List – Sunday 22 August and Thursday 26 August

More Than I Love My Life by David Grossman
A Horse Walks into a Bar by David Grossman
The Book of Intimate Grammar by David Grossman 
Someone to Run With by David Grossman
 To the End of the Land by David Grossman
Banjo by Claude McKay
Romance in Marseille by Claude McKay 
The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald 
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman by Laurence Sterne
Little Scratch by Rebecca Watson 
A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan 
No one is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
Interior Chinatown by Charles Yu 
Sad Little Men by Richard Beard 
On Poetry by Ted Hughes 
Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape by Cal Flyn

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