International Booker Prize Longlist 2023

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Translated by Julia SanchesLonglisted for the 2023 International Booker PrizeWorking as a cook on a merchant ship, a woman comes to know and love Samsa, a woman who gives her the nickname ‘Boulder’. When Samsa gets a job in…

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Translated by Chi-Young KimSHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE 2023A sweeping, multi-generational tale blending fable, farce and fantasy.“A peerless work devoted to telling a powerful story and lauded for expanding…

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Translated by Richard Philcox*Longlisted for the International Booker Prize 2023*From the Queen of Caribbean storytellingOne Easter Sunday, Madame Ballandra puts her hands together and exclaims: “A miracle!” Baby Pascal is…

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Translated from the French by Frank WynneInitially a little intrigued, all babies eventually return the security guard's smile.The security guard adores babies. Perhaps because babies do not shoplift.Babies adore the security guard. Perhaps…

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Translated by Angela RodelA GUARDIAN AND FINANCIAL TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR‘The most exquisite kind of literature… I’ve put it on a special shelf in my library that I reserve for books that demand…

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Translated by Charlotte BarslundA cat and mouse game of surveillance and psychological torment develops between a middle aged artist and her aging mother, as Vigdis Hjorth returns to the themes of her controversial modern classic, Will…

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Translated from the Russian by Reuben Woolley“Ukraine’s greatest living novelist” New European“A Ukrainian Murakami” GuardianA hugely entertaining romp through the beautiful city of Lviv, by the…

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Translated by Daniel Levin BeckerBuried deep in rural France, little remains of the isolated hamlet of the Three Lone Girls, save a few houses and a curiously assembled quartet: Patrice Bergogne, inheritor of his…

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Translated by Katy DerbyshireRico, Mark, Paul and Daniel were 13 when the Berlin Wall fell in autumn 1989. Growing up in Leipzig at the time of reunification, they dream of a better life somewhere beyond the brewery…

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Translated by Aniruddhan VasudevanSaroja and Kumaresan are young and in love. After meeting in a small southern Indian town, where Kumaresan works at a soda bottling shop, they quickly marry before returning to Kumaresan’s family…

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Translated by Rosalind HarveyStill Born, Guadalupe Nettel’s fourth novel, explores one of life’s most consequential decisions – whether or not to have children – with her signature charm and intelligence. Alina and…

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Translated by Nichola Smalley‘A wild 529-page trip … magnificent.’ AMBER MEDLAND, THE TELEGRAPHA joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and how we are all interconnected.In October 1989, triplet babies…

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Translated by Jeremy TiangNinth Building is a fascinating collection of vignettes drawn from Zou Jingzhi’s experience growing up during the Cultural Revolution, first as a boy in Beijing and then as a teenager exiled to the…