Cassie McCullough

What sort of life, how would you describe the life he's lived thus far?

Yeah.

Well, Susanna, how would you describe the life that he's lived so far?

Thank you.

Well, given this prompting, perhaps, Susanna, you could recommend some other books that we could read in translation from Italian.

Well, what brilliant guests you've both been today.

Incredible knowledge, incredible articulate responses as well.

Thank you so much for being here today.

And Stephanie Smee is a literary translator from French into English, whose translations include Anna-Laure Cares, The Godmother and The Inheritors.

Her other languages are German, Italian and Swedish.

And Kate, you're off next week for a break.

Yeah, have a good time.

Thank you.

I'll be here with Michaela Kolowski and we'll be reading Trent Dalton's new book, All Our Shimmering Skies, and the week after, Richard Flanagan's The Living Sea of Waking Dreams, the week after that.

I'm Kate Evans.

And I'm Cassie McCullough, and we've got three new novels for you today.

But before we get to those, are you ready for next week's book club program?

We're reading Eleanor Ferranti's The Lying Life of Adults, along with a kind of companion book that we've chosen for the event.

It's The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa.

Now, there is a reason we've put these two books together, and you'll find out if you read them both or if you're listening next week.