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Service95 Book Club With Dua Lipa

Jean-Baptiste Answers Your Questions

2/17/20266 min

Jean-Baptiste Del Amo joins Dua for this special Service95 Book Club episode and answers questions from our Service95 community. 

In this episode, he reflects on the emotion he most wants readers to confront in The Son of Man, and why discomfort can open the door to deeper understanding. How does he portray brutality without crossing into excess? Where is the line between honesty and spectacle?  

The conversation also explores fate and free will. Are his characters trapped in cycles shaped by history, family and violence, or do they have the power to choose differently? How much of our...

Clips

Confronting Violence Without Gratuitousness
Do Characters Really Choose?
Knowing When A Book Ends
Faulkner’s Echo In The Father
Thriller Drenched In Melancholy

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First 90 seconds

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  3. Dua Lipa· Host0:52

    [upbeat music] Hi, everyone, and thanks for joining us as we continue our deep dive on The Son of Man by Jean-Baptiste Del Amo, my February monthly read. So, Jean-Baptiste, I'm not the only one who has questions about The Son of Man. We wanted to invite Service 95 readers to submit questions of their own, and I have some here ready to go if you're ready.

  4. Jean-Baptiste Del Amo· Guest1:24

    Yeah, I'm ready.

  5. Dua Lipa· Host1:25

    Brilliant. So we have the first one from Ada, who asks, "What emotion

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