The Republic of Consciousness Prize Shortlist 2024
Selected by the Bookshop
The Republic of Consciousness Prize celebrates outstanding literary fiction published by small presses in the UK and Ireland. The prize is open to fiction in all forms – novels, short stories, works in translation – and the prize money is split between all the shortlisted presses and writers. This year’s winner revealed on 17 April.
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Translated by Laura Garmeson & Sophie Lewiswith an afterword by Tice Cin‘Full of originality and lyricism … it’s a punch to the stomach, in the best sense. At times dark, at times vibrating with hope in every…
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When seven-year-old Jedza witnesses a tragic incident involving a train and the death of his close boyhood friend in his hometown Miner's Drift, he is convinced that his life is haunted. Now in his mid-20s, Jedza is a down-and-out…
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WINNER OF THE REPUBLIC OF CONSCIOUSNESS PRIZE 2024Translated by Zoë PerryAnimals go mad and men die (accidentally and not) at a slaughterhouse in an impoverished, isolated corner of Brazil.In a landscape worthy of Cormac McCarthy, the…
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Translated by Jim & Ella DingleyThe 100 tales in The Zekameron are based on the 14th century Decameron, but Znak is closer to Beckett than to Boccaccio. Banality and brutality vie with the human ability to…
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Translated by Morgan GilesA multi-generational, multilingual epic by the National Book Award Winner and bestselling author and translator of Tokyo Ueno StationIn 1930s Japanese-occupied Korea, Lee Woo-Cheol was a running prodigy and a…
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