59 characters – including literary agents, people smugglers, haulage drivers, rappers, and a Russian oligarch – cavort in Andrew O’Hagan’s seventh novel. At the center: the liberal and wealthy Campbell Flynn, who became famous as an art historian with a biography of Vermeer – in the crisis of his life. A panoramic view of London in 2021; »…a frontline dispatch from the trenches of culture wars and a much-needed, vividly enjoyable broadside to them.« (The Guardian).
With Andrew O’Hagan
Moderated by Thomas Meaney
Read by Frank Arnold
The event is held in English.
»Caledonian Road« was translated from English into German by Manfred Allié and Gabriele Kempf-Allié.