Helon Habila: 'What fiction does is make you live the life of the other'

Podcast: Fictionable · Fictionable

Opublikowano: 2025-10-29

Here in the northern hemisphere it's getting misty and mellow all over again. Time for Autumn 2025 and another fruitful harvest of podcasts, ripened to the core. Over the next few weeks, we'll be hearing from Caroline Clark, Kasimma and Ephameron. But we launch into autumn with Helon Habila and his story Paradise. Habila tells us how, after twenty years of living in the USA, in this story he's trying to "make sense of America". "History is not past," Habila says, "it's still with us, and we're living the consequences of that history of...