11. Emma Donoghue in conversation with Marisol Morales-Ladrón (22 October 2020)

22/10/2020 43 min Temporada 1 Episodio 11
11. Emma Donoghue in conversation with Marisol Morales-Ladrón (22 October 2020)

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In her discussion with Marisol Morales-Ladrón, Irish-Canadian writer Emma Donoghue reads from her latest novel The Pull of the Stars (2020) and explores its themes of childbirth, motherhood, and lesbian love set against the backdrop of the 1918 Spanish Flu pandemic. They also discuss the setting in a maternity ward in Dublin, the challenge of examining and presenting Irish national history from a female perspective and trace some autobiographical references in the novel. www.efacis.eu

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