By no stretch of the imagination can I claim that Traveller of the Century has been lurking unread on the (admittedly over populated) landing bookshelves, therefore I will not attempt to justify reading what is patently a NEW book. My only defence is that the nice people at Pushkin Press offered me a copy and it seemed impolite to refuse the kind offer. (How does that sound?). In fairness, I do not think I ever claimed that I was never going to read a new book while perusing the backlog (and indeed have already allowed exceptions for library loans).
Next week I will be posting up a Q and A session with Andrés Neuman, the South American author of Traveller of the Century (recently published in translation by Pushkin Press). The publishers are arranging a series of email interviews between Neuman and literary bloggers.
My slot is to be next Wednesday 25th April so I shall be posting up the eight questions that I submitted to the author and his responses to them. I will also put together a piece about the novel for visitors to The Landing to read. It is the first time that I have ever had the opportunity to ask questions of a writer, so I was apprehensive about having a go.
Pop back on Wednesday to see the results. Meanwhile, it is back to reading Traveller of the Century and making notes..
That should be an interesting experience both for you and for the writer. Might come back to your blog to read those Q&A. BTW, did you know tonight is the World Book Night? http://www.worldbooknight.org/
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Yes, our bookshop was involved with giving away books for World Book Night. I think a lot of people were surprised to be getting free books! I hope it encourages a few new readers. Thanks for reading blog.
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