Martin Amis reveals refugee short story was inspired by experience on European book tour

Published in the New Yorker this week, Oktober follows an author narrator on a book tour who finds Munich overwhelmed by refugees and clashing opinions

A writer on a European book tour arrives in Germany and finds himself caught in the middle of a clash of opposing dialogues in a city overwhelmed with a huge refugee crisis.

Pertinent, but also personal: British author Martin Amis has revealed in an interview with the New Yorker that his new short story, Oktober, was inspired by what he saw on his most recent book tour in Europe, a trip he called “unusually interesting and unusually disturbing”.

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