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Colm Toibin Sees the ‘Origin of All Civil Wars’ in this Greek Tragedy
Written by Colm Toibin
Narrated by Colm Toibin and Jeffrey Brown
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In the new novel House of Names, one of today's leading contemporary writers looks back to the Trojan War and Greek mythology for inspiration. Colm Toibin joins Jeffrey Brown to discuss why he wanted to write a novel about a family drama in ancient Greece and the connection to civil wars in our own time.
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