International Booker Prize 2024
Each year the International Booker Prize introduces readers to the best novels and short story collections from around the world that have been translated into English and published in the UK and/or Ireland. For more information, click here!
A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
'Comrade Stalin wishes to speak with you.' A fascinating exploration of the relationship between writers and tyranny, from the winner of the first Man Booker International Prize. In June 1934, Joseph Stalin allegedly telephoned the famous novelist and poet Boris Pasternak to discuss the arrest of fell ...Show more
The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Kyiv, 1919. The Soviets control the city, but White armies menace them from the West. No man trusts his neighbour and any spark of resistance may ignite into open rebellion.When Samson Kolechko's father is murdered, his last act is to save his son from a falling Cossack sabre. Deprived of his right ear ...Show more
Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-Yong (translated by by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae)
35.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
Virtuoso Hwang Sok-yong is back with another powerful story - an epic, multi-generational tale that threads together a century of Korean history.Centred on a family of rail workers, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of workers and common folk, starting from the Japanese colonial era, continuing throu ...Show more
The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone
34.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The extraordinary novel that confirmed Domenico Starnone as one of the greatest writers in modern Italian literature
Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener (Author) , Julia Sanches (Translated by)
32.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
A provocative autobiographical novel that reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one woman's family ties to both colonised and coloniser __________ 'Wiener has rescued an intimate story from the family archive, a story that is also the infamous history of our continent, with her trademark inte ...Show more
Simpatía: A Novel by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón
36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Simpatia is set in the Venezuela of Nicolas Maduro amid a mass exodus of the intellectual class who have been leaving their pets behind. Ulises Kan, the protagonist and a movie buff, receives a text message from his wife, Paulina, saying she is leaving the country (and him). Ulises is not heartbroken bu ...Show more
Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior
22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Verso Fiction Ser.
Heralded as the most important Brazilian novel of the century so far, this bestseller's unique blend of magic and social realism won it three literary awards and global acclaim 'I heard our grandmother asking what we were doing.'"Say something!" she demanded, threatening to tear out our tongues. Lit ...Show more
Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck; Michael Hofmann (translator)
36.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Berlin. 11 July 1986. They meet by chance on a bus. She is a young student, he is older and married. Theirs is an intense and sudden attraction, fuelled by a shared passion for music and art, and heightened by the secrecy they must maintain. But when she strays for a single night he cannot forgive her a ...Show more
What I'd Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma (translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey)
27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
What if one half of a pair of twins no longer wants to live? What if the other can't live without them?This question lies at the heart of Jente Posthuma's deceptively simple What I'd Rather Not Think About. The narrator is a twin whose brother has recently taken his own life. She looks back on their chi ...Show more
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