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Spanning life-writing, fiction, and environmental thought, this conversation will appeal to anyone interested in how literature can reshape our sense of distance, place, and belonging in a changing world. It will also be of interest to students and scholars of postcolonial and world literatures. No prior specialist knowledge or preparation is required.

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[A] novel saturated with extremes: the extremity of the distance between the two lovers, the extreme difficulties of communication, given the lack of taken-for-granted communication infrastructure at the Antarctic, and the extreme climate conditions [the character] Niall endures.

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In it, she calls it “a novel of ideas, stylised in its approach to dialogue and description as it explores questions of symmetry and opposition – north/south, here/there, now/then. … adept at capturing the oppressiveness of the icescape”.

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