Money, kidnapping, reality TV, politics, corruption, families, love, and betrayal in all three books on this edition of The Bookshelf. Kate Evans and Jonathan Green, with guests Farz Edraki and Johan Gabrielsson, read Taffy Brodesser-Akner's Long Island Compromise, Porochistaa Khakpour's Tehrangeles and Patrick Holland's Oblivion. Awfully rich, richly awful.
BOOKS
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Long Island Compromise, Wildfire
Porochistaa Khakpour, Tehrangeles: A Novel, Ultimo Press
Patrick Holland, Oblivion, Transit Lounge
GUESTS
Farz Edraki, Iranian-Australian writer and producer. Presenter of the ABC audio series, 'Days Like These'
Johan Gabrielsson, Swedish-born, Sydney-based filmmaker – and Bookshelf regular
OTHER BOOKS MENTIONED
Jonathan Franzen, The Corrections
Marcel Proust, In Search of Lost Time
Hossein Asgari, Only Sound Remains
Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
Taffy Brodesser-Akner, Fleishman is in Trouble
Kaveh Akbar, Martyr!
James Joyce, Ulysses
Graham Greene, The Quiet American
Graham Greene, A Burnt-Out Case
Claire Keegan, Walk the Blue Fields
Claire Keegan, Antarctica
James Salter, works
Jonathan Franzen, works
Philip Roth, works
Miranda July, All Fours
Clive James, Poetry Notebook
Niklas Turner Olovzon, Iceberg