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  • Books
  • London
  • Episode 572
  • 29 Jul 2026
  • 27 min

Chloe Aridjis on objects, projection and transformation

  • Meet the Writers
  • Books
  • London
  • Episode 572
  • 27 min

Booker Prize-longlisted writer Chloe Aridjis is the author of Book of Clouds, Asunder and Sea Monsters. Her fourth novel, The Shadow of the Object, moves between Mexico City and London in a tale of illness, friendship, magic lanterns, silver polishing, grief and the strange charge of objects.

Host
  • Georgina Godwin
Producer
  • Steph Chungu

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