“Weirdly, I made the whole thing up,” said Ms. Steavenson, laughing. “Paris Metro” also takes place in Baghdad, Beirut and the Greek island of Kos. “It’s a great danger when something unpleasant happens that you lash out and your blame becomes generalized, which is what Kit does,” Ms. Steavenson said. Ms. Steavenson cited Arthur Koestler’s “Darkness at Noon,” Truman Capote’s “Breakfast at Tiffany’s” and Graham Greene’s “The Quiet American” as her “touchstone” novels. “When reporters want to write fiction I usually run for the hills,” Mr. Weiland said in a telephone interview.

Source: New York Times March 08, 2018 16:52 UTC