There is plenty to be excited about this year books-wise. Here are a few of Liv’s highlights to start you off:
As If by Isabel Waidner: ‘A chance meeting between two men with striking similarities – both physical and circumstantial – prompts them to chase the other's path in life. This feels like Waidner’s most accessible book yet, and certainly my favourite so far.’
My Year in Paris with Gertrude Stein: A Fiction by Deborah Levy: ‘I’m still infused with all things Stein following Francesca Wade’s biography from last year. I’m therefore extremely excited for Deborah Levy’s latest novel, which follows its narrator’s quest to answer the big questions: Who was Gertrude Stein and why does she matter?’
Repetition by Vigdis Hjorth: ‘Returning to the themes of Will and Testament, Hjorth presents a characteristically dark and haunting novel, centring on a character’s recollection of her past as she scrutinises the role of memory and its veracity.’
The Renovation by Kenan Orhan: ‘A novel about, bizarrely, a woman whose bathroom renovation results in a Turkish prison cell being installed in her house. Orhan reflects on the themes of exiles and displacement - all hinged on this brilliant premise.’
An Army of Lovers Cannot Fail by Hélène Giannecchini: ‘Giannecchini presents the case for queer kinship as an important way to live slightly aslant to the world. An Army of Lovers is a special book: wide, sweeping, brilliantly researched and massively enjoyable.’
The Anniversary by Andrea Bajani: ‘A new addition from Penguin’s International Writers series. The Anniversary is a gut-wrenching novel which questions whether we can ever really escape family and origin.’
From the publisher:
Dilara is having her bathroom renovated. Her father's memory has started collapsing, dementia stealing a little more of him each day; her apartment must be adapted so he can move in with her. But when the builders finally unveil their…
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A friendship is a filiation we choose. It holds love and laughter; it can extend our sense of the possible. Moved to honour a form of relation often subordinated to romantic and familial ties, and to explore a part of her own history,…
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Translated by Charlotte BarslundOne of the foremost writers of her generation explores the strength and pain of being youngAs winter approaches in Norway and the daylight dwindles, a chance encounter prompts a novelist to reexamine her…
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Trailblazing author Isabel Waidner returns with an existential cat-and-mouse story of grief, loss, ambition, and the possibility making oneself anewTwo men meet in a flat in London. They are total strangers and yet they look remarkably…
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'In one short and sly book after another, [Levy] writes about characters navigating swerves of history and sexuality, and the social and personal rootlessness that accompanies both' AtlanticWho was Gertrude Stein?Avant-garde American…
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'On that day, ten years ago, I saw my parents for the last time. Since then I’ve changed phone numbers, houses, continents, I’ve erected an impregnable wall and put an ocean between us. They’ve been the best ten years of…
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