We've got ourselves a longlist for the International Booker Prize 2025! And it seems like a corker. Join me while I wait for a video that's never coming, and then watch the reveal 😅
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Books mentioned:
📖 A Leopard-Skin Hat by Anne Serre (tr. by Mark Hutchinson)
📖 On a Woman’s Madness by Astrid Roemer (tr. Lucy Scott)
📖 Heart Lamp by Banu Mushtaq (translated from Kannada by Deepa Bhasthi)
📖 Perfection by Vincenzo Latronico (tr. Sophie Hughes)
📖 Eurotrash by Christian Kracht (tr. Daniel Bowles)
📖 Under the Eye of the Big Bird by Hiromi Kawakami (tr. Japanese by Asa Yoneda)
📖 Hunchback by Saou Ichikawa (tr. Polly Barton)
📖 Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix (tr. by Helen Stevenson)
📖 Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda (tr. Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary)
📖 Solenoid by Mircea Cărtărescu (tr. Sean Cotter)
📖 There’s a Monster Behind the Door by Gaëlle Bélem (tr. Karen Fleetwood and Laëtitia Saint-Lubert)
📖 On the Calculation of Volume I, by Solvej Balle (tr. Barbara J Haveland)
📖 The Book of Disappearance, by Ibtisam Azem (tr. by Sinan Antoon)
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