Each month on euradio, in Turning The Page, our team will be interviewing people from the book world.
In the second programme, we return to Small Boat to explore its themes in greater depth, focusing in particular on questions of guilt and responsibility. The narrator, accused of failing in her duty, refuses to be singled out for blame, asking why she should be held more accountable than the sea, the wars, or the global crises that force people into such perilous journeys.
Stark and unsettling, Small Boat emerges as a moral fable of our time, demonstrating how fiction can illuminate the darkest failures of the present.
