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Reading for our times
Usha Raman
20 episodes
6 days ago
A podcast that celebrates books and reading and the beauty of the written word--spoken out loud.
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A podcast that celebrates books and reading and the beauty of the written word--spoken out loud.
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Books
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Reading around the world
Reading for our times
36 minutes 43 seconds
5 years ago
Reading around the world

In this episode, Suroor Alikhan, host of the blog Talking about Books, takes us on a global reading tour. The six excerpts featured in the episode are by writers  from different regions of the world, from Argentina to Angola, from Jamaica to Poland, opening the page to very different literary traditions.

The books featured in this episode are:

Drive your plow over the bones of the dead by Olga Tokarczuk (Poland)

Go went Gone by Jenny Erpenbeck (Germany)

Bestiarios by Julio Cortazar (Argentina)

The Lunatic by Anthony C Winkler (Jamaica)

The Book of Chameleons by Jose Eduardo Agualusa (Angola)

The Book of Masks by Hwan Sun-won (South Korea)

If you’d like some reading recommendations, take a look at Suroor’s blog: https://talking-about-books.com

Reading for our times
A podcast that celebrates books and reading and the beauty of the written word--spoken out loud.