More Than One String To His Mandolin
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Louis de Bernières is known worldwide as the author of Captain Corelli's Mandolin - but at nineteen, teaching in Colombia, he was known for something else. Dancing like a chicken.
He talks to City of Books about how "we raised a lot of dust, raised a lot of fun" during that life-changing period in
South America.
For more on his latest novel, The Autumn of the Ace: https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/111/1117235/the-autumn-of-the-ace/9781787301337.html
Produced and presented by Martina Devlin.
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