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The Book Case

John Boyne Revisits The Past

The Book Case

ABC News

Fiction, Arts, Books, Society & Culture

4.1766 Ratings

🗓️ 19 January 2023

⏱️ 37 minutes

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Summary

You may have noticed that most weeks in our ‘rapid fire’ questions to featured authors, we ask if they have a favorite author. Little secret: Sometimes we are looking for ideas. A few weeks ago, John Irving told us he would read anything John Boyne has written just because Boyne wrote it. So we got busy reading John Boyne. It turns out he has a new book released just this past November, All the Broken Places, that is a continuation of sorts of a book released many years ago that was made into a terrific movie, The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, that we both saw and admired. All the Broken Places centers around a now 91 year old woman who deals with the shame she feels knowing her father was commandant of Auschwitz, having tried to hide her past for decades. How that haunts her makes for an engrossing read. Thank you to John! Our book store this week is Joseph-Beth Booksellers in Lexington, Kentucky and Cincinnati, Ohio.  Books Mentioned in the Podcast: The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne All the Broken Places by John Boyne The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyne The Absolutist by John Boyne My Brother’s Name is Jessica by John Boyne A History of Loneliness by John Boyne Stay Where You Are and Then Leave by John Boyne The Boy At The Top Of The Mountain by John Boyne A Ladder to the Sky by John Boyne The House of Special Purpose by John Boyne The Echo Chamber by John Boyne The Book Thief by Markus Zusak The Cider House Rules by John Irving The Silver Sword by Ian Serraillier Snow by John Banville The Singularities by John Banville The Sea by John Banville Horse by Geraldine Brooks Clay’s Quilt by Silas House Southernmost by Silas House Lark Ascending by Silas House Not Your Average Hot Guy by Gwenda Bond The Date from Hell by Gwenda Bond Dhalgren by Samuel R. Delany Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Welcome to the bookcase. I am Kate Gibson.

0:38.8

And I'm Charlie Gibson, Kate's father, which I want to mention since the last time she introduced me in one of these podcasts, she called me her co-host, which I thought was a bit impersonal.

0:50.0

But I am her father, and this is our two-generational, two-gender.

0:53.8

Look at Books, The Bookcase with Kate and Charlie.

0:55.7

And if it's the first time you're joining us, we welcome you.

0:58.4

We are so excited.

1:00.0

This is a great show for you to join us, because in some ways, we are delivering on one of the promises that I hope this podcast would do, which is that like we would have a writer on who we loved, and then they would tell us

1:11.9

about a writer that they love, and then we would read that writer, and they would become

1:15.5

a writer that we love, and then they would come on the show.

1:18.7

And it happened.

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And so today, John Irving, who has been so kind to the show and generous of his time, and

1:25.2

I'm such a fan girl of all of his work. He said that he would

1:28.8

read anything that John Boyne wrote. And so when I received a catalog that had John Boyne's name

1:34.1

in it, I had to order it right away. And the book was all the broken places. John Boyne, B-O-Y-N-E,

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