It's such a pleasure to be here.ĬONAN: And to start I'm going to ask you the same question we're asking our listeners. And it's so nice to have you back on TALK OF THE NATION.ĬOLUM MCCANN: Hi, Neal. His new novel, "TransAtlantic" is just out. But first Colum McCann joins us from our bureau in New York. Later in the program, Steven Cook on what he describes as a hollow democracy in Turkey. Email us: You can also join the conversation on our website. Was there a moment when you decided to go back home? We want to hear from emigres in the audience today. "TransAtlantic" covers 150 years of Irish history, through the voyages of four historic visitors - all men, as it happens - and the travels of four generations of fictional women. In his new novel the Irish emigre returns home. He later spent time in Slovakia to bring the story a young Gypsy poet to life in and may be best known for "Let the Great World Spin," which opens with a story of Philippe Petit, the daredevil who walked a steel tightrope strung between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center a quarter mile above the streets of New York. To write "Dancer," Colum McCann learned how to pirouette with the Kirov Ballet.
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