The White Book by Han Kang; Deborah Smith (Translator)
Category: Fiction
Shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker International Prize From Booker Prize-winner and literary phenomenon Han Kang, a lyrical and disquieting exploration of personal grief, written through the prism of the color white While on a writer's residency, a nameless narrator wanders the twin white worlds of t ...Show more
Vernon Subutex by Virginie Despentes; Frank Wynne (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: MacLehose Press Editions Ser.
**SHORTLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018** WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX?An urban legend.A fall from grace.The mirror who reflects us all. Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggl ...Show more
The Dinner Guest by Gabriela Ybarra; Natasha Wimmer (Translator)
Category: Fiction | Series: trans Natasha Wimmer
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE The Dinner Guest is Gabriela Ybarra's prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy.The s ...Show more
The Flying Mountain by Christoph Ransmayr; Simon Pare (Translator)
Category: Man Booker International Prize | Series: The\German List Ser.
In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out--if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is most suitable for the epic voyage Christoph Ransmayr rel ...Show more
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