The New Yorker: Fiction

Madeleine Thien Reads Yoko Ogawa

Episode Summary

<p>Madeleine Thien joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “<a href="https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2004/09/06/the-cafeteria-in-the-evening-and-a-pool-in-the-rain">The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain</a>,” by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder, which was published in <em>The New Yorker</em> in 2004. Thien’s books include the novels “Dogs at the Perimeter” and “Do Not Say We Have Nothing,” which won the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize. </p>

Episode Notes

Madeleine Thien joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss “The Cafeteria in the Evening and a Pool in the Rain,” by Yoko Ogawa, translated from the Japanese by Stephen Snyder, which was published in The New Yorker in 2004. Thien’s books include the novels “Dogs at the Perimeter” and “Do Not Say We Have Nothing,” which won the Governor General’s Literary Award and the Scotiabank Giller Prize.