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Radio 4,26 Feb 2017,28 mins

Mohsin Hamid, North Korean short stories

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Mariella Frostrup talks to acclaimed novelist Mohsin Hamid whose new book, Exit West, is a love story which takes on hugely urgent themes of migration and the refugee crisis. As a rare collection of short stories from North Korea is published in the UK, and around the world, we talk to the translator about what it reveals about daily life in this secretive country, and publisher Max Porter recommends a new biography of poet David Jones.

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