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The Adventures of China Iron
Gabriela Cabezón Cámara’s joyful, hallucinatory novel is also an incisive critique of national myths and a requiem for the casualties of ‘progress’
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The Other Name: Septology I - II
In the first volume of a trilogy of novels, Jon Fosse presents us with an indelible and poignant exploration of the human condition
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The Memory Police
A beautiful, haunting and provocative fable about the power of memory and the trauma of loss from Yoko Ogawa, one of Japan’s greatest writers
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Hurricane Season
Fernanda Melchor’s formidable portrait of Mexico and its demons, written with a brutal lyricism that is as affecting as it is enthralling
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Minor Detail
Adania Shibli's novel 'Minor Detail' is a haunting meditation on war, violence and memory, which cuts to the heart of the Palestinian experience of dispossession
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Tyll
In a brilliant, riotous tale full of macabre humour, Daniel Kehlmann lifts a jester legend from German folklore and puts him into the Thirty Years War
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Red Dog
Willem Anker’s fiercely powerful novel is a wild, epic tale of Africa in a time before boundaries between cultures and peoples were fixed
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An Inventory of Losses
With an engaging intensity of feeling, Judith Schalansky's strange and wonderful book pays elegant homage to past beauty now lost to this world
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The War of the Poor
Éric Vuillard tells the story of a man whose life casts light on the brutal times in which he lived - a period when, yet again, Europe was in flux
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The Perfect Nine
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o tells the story of the founding of the Gĩkũyũ people of Kenya, from a strongly feminist perspective