In this week's podcast we look at two apparently very different novels that have more in common than you might think. Hanya Yanagihara's Man Booker prize-longlisted A Little Life deals with the dreams – and nightmares – of a group of friends in New York, while Andrew Miller's The Crossing centres on a woman too strange to make friends at all. Both novels are set in the contemporary world, but aspire to timelessness. Both writers explain how this approach grew out of a resistance to familiar tropes of recent fiction.
Reading list:
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (Picador)
The Crossing by Andrew Miller (Sceptre)
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