Michelle de Kretser probes the human heart with insight and wit in The Life to Come

Writers and Company

English - June 09, 2019 16:00 - 56 minutes - 51.7 MB - ★★★★★ - 182 ratings
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In her new novel, the prize-winning Australian author uses satire to explore race, class and migration, and the art of writing itself. De Kretser talks to Eleanor Wachtel about hope and betrayal in her fiction, and about growing up in Sri Lanka in the 1960s.