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Zadie Smith’s The Autograph Man

β€œI love the idea of a perfect Jewish joke and I wanted the whole book to be one.” The British novelist talks about her second novel, The Autograph Man, in which all of her main characters are Jewish.

Also on the programme: Australian novelist Tim Winton; the 2002 Booker Prize shortlist.

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23 minutes

ΒιΆΉΤΌΕΔ World Service Archive

This programme was restored as part of the World Service archive project