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Hello, in a week when facing up to the truth of the past has been in the front of all our minds,

we'll be talking to William Boyd about the literary legacy of the Second World War.

Short story writer Elaine Chu sends a postcard from Singapore with news of how history is fueling a boom in speculative fiction.

But first, Anjais Neumann is one of the most exciting writers at work in the Spanish language.

Born in Buenos Aires, he later went into exile in Spain during the military dictatorship,

and that sense of displacement and trauma in the face of vast political events

recurs throughout his novels.

His latest fracture carries on those themes, as it pieces together the story of Yoshi,

a Japanese man who's the only member of his family

to survive the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombings. In 2011, with the destruction of the nuclear

power plant at Fukushima, he finds himself compelled to re-examine the pain and the loss he has endured.

Andreas Neumann joins me now from his home in Granada.

Andres, welcome to open book. Fracture is such an extraordinarily moving and profound book.

And at the heart of it is the central character, Yoshi. Was the story of Yoshi and his experiences of both Hiroshima and Fukushima

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