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Asd 3, The book that Zadie Smith recommends to everyone | The Graham Norton Book Club on Audible

The book that Zadie Smith recommends to everyone | The Graham Norton Book Club on Audible

(bewitching music)

- What is the book that got you into reading?

- It's so hard to answer these questions.

I was really trying to think about it.

- Don't think too much, really.

(Gordon laughs)

It's just the Graham Norton Book Club.

- I think it's probably "George's Marvelous Medicine."

It's definitely dull.

- Okay. - I think-

I just was completely thrilled.

But like every English child, they just blew my mind.

- Okay, so dull got you in.

What is the book you wish your name was on the front off?

- I'm gonna give you a boring answer to this, too.

It doesn't make any sense to me as a question.

I can't, books are so closely tied to their people.

It literally doesn't make sense to me.

(Graham laughs) Books I envy-

There's a book called "The Blue Flower"

by Penelope Fitzgerald, it's a historical novel.

And it's just

lovely.

Like, it's just a thing of complete perfection.

I really envy short novels,

the kind of novels I seem incapable of writing.

(Graham laughs) A short, elegant novel.

- Okay.

And is there a book you gift to people or recommend

regularly?

- I've been recommending a lot

this book by Annie Ernaux, she's a French writer.

She's now 80, I think.

She's from a kind of working class French background.

And she writes these novels

about being alive the past 80 years.

And they're just like little snapshots from her life.

And I find them like, unbearably moving.

It's like the long view, the years.

Yeah, it's a great book.

(bewitching music)


The book that Zadie Smith recommends to everyone | The Graham Norton Book Club on Audible Das Buch, das Zadie Smith allen empfiehlt | The Graham Norton Book Club auf Audible

(bewitching music)

- What is the book that got you into reading?

- It's so hard to answer these questions.

I was really trying to think about it.

- Don't think too much, really.

(Gordon laughs)

It's just the Graham Norton Book Club.

- I think it's probably "George's Marvelous Medicine."

It's definitely dull.

- Okay. - I think-

I just was completely thrilled.

But like every English child, they just blew my mind.

- Okay, so dull got you in.

What is the book you wish your name was on the front off?

- I'm gonna give you a boring answer to this, too.

It doesn't make any sense to me as a question.

I can't, books are so closely tied to their people.

It literally doesn't make sense to me.

(Graham laughs) Books I envy-

There's a book called "The Blue Flower"

by Penelope Fitzgerald, it's a historical novel.

And it's just

lovely.

Like, it's just a thing of complete perfection.

I really envy short novels,

the kind of novels I seem incapable of writing.

(Graham laughs) A short, elegant novel.

- Okay.

And is there a book you gift to people or recommend

regularly?

- I've been recommending a lot

this book by Annie Ernaux, she's a French writer.

She's now 80, I think.

She's from a kind of working class French background.

And she writes these novels

about being alive the past 80 years.

And they're just like little snapshots from her life.

And I find them like, unbearably moving.

It's like the long view, the years.

Yeah, it's a great book.

(bewitching music)