John Irving – Official Author Website

May 11th, 2016: Madrid, Spain
Casa de America: In Conversation with Vincente Molina Foix, 19:00
May 12th, 2016: Barcelona, Spain

John Irving talks to Lynn Neary about the origins of Avenue of Mysteries—from visiting child performers at Indian and Mexican circuses two decades ago, to a screenplay and eventually, a novel.
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Avenue of Mysteries is available as an audiobook, too. Hear an excerpt with reader Armando Durán.
As Irving says of Duran, “My wife Janet and I loved his reading of Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘Love in the Time of Cholera.’ We love his voice, and the way he interprets the dialogue of characters in novels, especially.””...

In these three book trailers, John Irving discusses Avenue of Mysteries.
IN THE FIRST TRAILER, Irving describes the parallel tracks on which the story is told: In one story, there is a a fourteen-year-old boy named Juan Diego, growing up in Oaxaca, Mexico. In the other story, Juan Diego is fifty-four years old and travelling...