89: Hugo Hamilton, Conversation with the Sea
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The episode features an interview with Hugo Hamilton about his novel 'Conversation with the Sea' and explores themes of personal struggle and identity.
Send us Fan Mail We’re back for the first episode of 2026. This week we’re back in Books Upstairs in Dublin to interview Hugo Hamilton about his latest novel, Conversation with the Sea. Fleeing his failed marriage in Berlin, Lukas Dorn revisits the West of Ireland, the place of his honeymoon two decades earlier. While his former wife is being cancelled at work and his daughter is arrested at a street protest, he tries to make sense of his broken life with a journal as his sole companion.&nb...
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