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radio Tip: Siri Hustvedt a guest writer for "The Conversation"

Mit dem Roman " Was ich liebte " und dem Sachbuch " Die zitternde Frau " hat es Siri Hustvedt in die Bestseller-Listen geschafft. Nun veröffentlich die us-amerikanische Schriftstellerin ihr neues Buch " Summer Without Men r ". It tells the story of a marriage crisis between poet Mia and the neuroscientist Boris. But over the reading notes to the reader that in the book much more to go.

be much more significant philosophical questions discussed. How to change people? Why we feel the spouse, we thought we knew, suddenly, as so strange, why mentally ill people be as repulsive differently perceived and stigmatized?

excerpt from "The Summer Without Men"
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Tobias Wenzel for NDR in culture Siri Hustvedt Brooklyn visited and talked to her about these same questions about her marriage to Paul Auster, the image of some ignorant woman's and her new novel character Mia. Heard in "The Conversation" on Saturday, 5th March, at 18.00 clock on NDR Kultur.

Broadcast date: Saturday, 5 March, 18.00 clock, NDR Kultur
Source: NDR Presse


Siri Hustvedt was born in 1955 in Northfield, Minnesota. She studied literature at Columbia University and received his doctorate with a dissertation on Charles Dickens. She lives in Brooklyn and with the writer Paul Auster, married to whom she has a daughter. She became famous with the novels The Invisible Woman, The Enchantment of Lily Dahl, and especially with the international best-sellers What I Loved, The Sorrows of an American and the trembling woman.

books of the author (excerpt):

	The Invisible Woman Siri Hustvedt

	The trembling woman: A story of my nerve Siri Hustvedt

	Summer Without Men Siri Hustvedt

	What I Loved Siri Hustvedt