Michael Chabon: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

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  Lives Less Ordinary is the podcast from the BBC World Service bringing you extraordinary personal stories from around the globe.

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  Welcome to the World Book Club podcast.

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  I'm Harriet Gilbert and this month we're talking about a modern American epic called the Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay.

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  It's a novel that encompasses, among much else, comic book superheroes, Jewish folklore and the occupation of Czechoslovakia by the Nazis in World War II.

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  And here to answer questions about it from BBC listeners around the world is its multiply award winning author, Michael Chabon.

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  Michael, welcome to BBC World Book Club.

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  Thank you, Harriet.

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  I'm very happy to be here.

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  Now, I read somewhere, Michael, that you decided you wanted to be a writer at the age of 10 when you got really good marks for a story you wrote at school.

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  Is this myth or is it true?

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  That's the, that's the truth.

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  I.

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  I think I was 11.

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  Well, the teacher who gave Michael Chabon top marks for that was certainly prescient.

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  The schoolboy now has a fabulous literary career writing scripts, songs, short stories and above all, novels.

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  The latter including Wonder Boys, the Yiddish Policemen's union, and the book we're talking about today.

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  The Amazing Adventures of Cavalier and Clay has been described as Michael Chabon's masterwork.

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  A New York Times bestseller, a Pulitzer Prize winner.

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  Since its publication in the year 2000, it's been translated into more than 25 languages.

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