Hidden Histories

Bay Area Book Festival Podcast

Dorothee Elmiger and Jori Lewis, moderated by Ariana Proehl

Jori Lewis traces both natural and human history as she reveals the long and tortured story of the peanut's entanglement with human bondage. Swiss author Dorothee Elmiger's protagonist (also named Dorothee Elmiger) is an archivist, an obsessive collector of objects related to the violent history of the global sugar trade, which unfolds through a kaleidoscopic narrative that's as intellectually engaged as it is self-reflexive.

With the support of the Center for the Art of Translation

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