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Radio 4,19 Feb 2023,28 mins

Aleksandar Hemon, Roddy Doyle on Soul, and Dorothy Tse on Hong Kong

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Chris Power talks to Bosnian-American writer Aleksandar Hemon about The World and All That It Holds, his expansive new novel set in the aftermath of World War One. Roddy Doyle choses an evocative history of soul music as the Book I'd Never Lend. Plus writer Dorothy Tse and translator Natascha Bruce discuss the literary scene in Hong Kong. Book List - Sunday 19 February and Thursday 23 February The World and All That it Holds by Aleksandar Hemon The Lazarus Project by Aleksandar Hemon Nowhere Man by Aleksandar Hemon Sweet Soul Music by Peter Guralnick Life Without Children by Roddy Doyle Owlish by Dorothy Tse Mourning a Breast by Xi: Translated by Jennifer Feeley Moving a Stone by Yam Gong: Translated by James Shea and Dorothy Tse Tongueless by Lau Yee Wa: Translated by Jennifer Feeley

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