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31/01/2010

Mariella Frostrup talks to Neel Mukherjee about his prize-winning debut A Life Apart, a novel about a young man's escape from the slums of Calcutta.

Neel Mukherjee's debut novel, A Life Apart, has already shared a major Indian literary prize with one of the nation's modern masters, Amithav Ghosh. Neel Mukherjee joins Mariella to discuss the novel. He reveals his feelings about modern India, 17 years after he left the country, and his frustration with many depictions of the country by its own writers.

A new yearly anthology brings together fiction writing from more than 30 European countries. The collection's editor, Aleksandar Hemon, talks about compiling the volume and what it reveals about the concerns of contemporary European writers.

As a new Hollywood adaptation of Christopher Isherwood's novel A Single Man reaches our screens, the novelist Adam Mars-Jones and Katherine Bucknell, the editor of Isherwood's diaries, discuss the life and legacy of the writer.

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Thu 4 Feb 2010 16:00

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  • NEEL MUKHERJEE

    Mariella Frostrup talks to Neel Mukherjee about his debut novel, A Life Apart.

    Duration: 09:30

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  • Sun 31 Jan 2010 16:00
  • Thu 4 Feb 2010 16:00

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