International Booker Prize Bundle 2024
International Booker Prize Bundle 2024
Bundle of the six books shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024
Not a River by Selva Almada
Selva Almada’s novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina. Translated from Spanish by Annie McDermott.
Publication: 23 January 2024, Charco Press
ISBN: 9781913867454
Extent: 99 pages, paperback
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck
An intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history. Translated from German by Michael Hofmann.
Paperback
Publication: 2 May 2024, Granta
ISBN: 9781783786138
Extent: 304 pages
The Details by Ia Genberg
In exhilarating, provocative prose, Ia Genberg reveals an intimate and powerful celebration of what it means to be human. Translated from Swedish by Kira Josefsson.
Publication: 18 January 2024, Headline, Wildfire
ISBN: 9781035400584
Extent: 176 pages, paperback
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong
An epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history. Translated from Korean by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae.
Paperback
Publication: 11 May 2023, Scribe
ISBN: 9781913348953
Extent: 486 pages
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma
A deeply moving exploration of grief, told in brief, precise vignettes and full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour. Translated from Dutch by Sarah Timmer Harvey.
Publication: 8 June 2023, Scribe
ISBN: 9781914484711
Extent: 288 pages, paperback
Crooked Plow by Itamar Viera Junior
Heralded as a new masterpiece and the most important Brazilian novel of this century, this fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in the Brazil's poorest region, three generations after the abolition of slavery in that country is at once fantastic and realist, covering themes of family, spirituality, slavery and its aftermath and political struggle.
Translated from Portuguese by Johnny Lorenz.
Paperback
Publication: 27 June 2023, Verso
ISBN: 9781839766404
Extent: 288 pages