Internationally renowned and award-winning British author Jim Crace discusses his latest novel, The Pesthouse. In The Pesthouse he imagines a devastated and lawless America of the future, abandoned by history, where a man and a woman trek across a dangerous landscape, finding strength in each other and an unexpected love. Mr. Crace is also the author of Being Dead, Quarantine and The Gift of Stones.

Recorded Tuesday, May 22, 2007 at Chicago Public Library.