International Booker Prize shortlist 2025
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Translated from French by Mark HutchinsonA Leopard-Skin Hat may be Anne Serre’s most moving novel yet. Hailed in Le Point as a ‘masterpiece of simplicity, emotion and elegance,’ it is the story of an intense friendship…
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Translated by Deepa BhasthiLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025In the twelve stories of Heart Lamp, Banu Mushtaq exquisitely captures the everyday lives of women and girls in Muslim communities in southern India.…
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Translated by Barbara J. HavelandLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025The first volume of the poetic, page-turning masterpiece about one woman's fall through the cracks of time.'A total explosion.' Nicole…
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Translated by Sophie Hughes With the stylistic mastery of Georges Perec and nihilism of Michel Houellebecq, Perfection, superbly translated by Sophie Hughes, is a brilliantly scathing sociological novel about the emptiness of…
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Translated by Helen StevensonIntroduced by Jeremy HardingLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025In November 2021, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the United Kingdom capsized in the Channel causing the death…
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Translated by Asa YonedaLonglisted for the International Booker Prize 2025An inventive and immersive novel about a future in which humans are nearing extinction - from the bestselling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo.In the distant…
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