Pnin HC25 Helene Hanff read aloud these

Helene Hanff read aloud these stories of her life in New York for BBC Radio 4's Woman's Hour

with a focus on the importance of reclaiming African Spiritual practices as an act of liberation

She flew back from New York to care for her

Blue Ruin moves back and forth through time to deliver an extraordinary portrait of an artist as he reunites with his past and confronts the world he once loved and left behind

where there are more talking animals than people

Pnin HC25 Helene Hanff read aloud theseProfessor Timofey Pnin, late of Tsarist Russia, is now precariously perched at the heart of an American campus. Battling with American life and language, Pnin must face great hazards in this new world: the ruination of his beautiful lumber room as office; the removal of his teeth and the fitting of new ones; the search for a suitable boarding house; and the trials of taking the wrong train to deliver a lecture in a language he has yet to master. Wry,