Amanda Sthers: Holy Lands

Bookworm

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4.5 • 606 Ratings

🗓️ 14 February 2019

⏱️ 29 minutes

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Summary

A writer of ten novels in French, Holy Lands is the first novel by Amanda Sthers to appear in English, translated by herself.

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0:00.0	Funds for Bookworm are provided in part by Lannin Foundation.
0:03.8	Boots!
0:06.0	Where would we be without books?
0:12.0	Where would we be without good?
0:15.0	No, Timberd.
0:16.0	It's a rhetorical question, sir.
0:20.0	But where would we be without books?
0:23.8	From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.
0:30.3	Today, my guest is Amanda Sturz.
0:34.0	She is French.
0:36.9	She is living in Los Angeles, The name, which is a pen name, is spelled
0:42.6	S-T-H-E-R-S. This comes from a grandmother whose name was Esther, and St.ers is sort of like a
0:53.7	contraction of Esther's.
0:56.0	Yes?
0:57.0	Exactly.
0:58.0	Oh, good.
0:59.0	The book is called Holy Lands.
1:02.0	It's published by Broomsbury here.
1:05.0	A Man to Sturs has written 10 novels of which this is the first to appear in English and America.
1:13.6	Not only is it the first to appear in English in America, she performed the translation herself,
1:23.6	and not only that, but she also adapted the book into a movie, which she directed.
1:33.5	And the movie will be coming out in May.
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