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Read an extract from the opening chapter of each title on the International Booker Prize 2024 longlist

Jenny Erpenbeck’s intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history
 

Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Not A River is the finest expression yet of Selva Almada’s compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina

In a series of thirteen interconnected stories, Urszula Honek encapsulates the tragedies and misfortunes that befall a group of people in the Beskid Niski region

Hwang Sok-yong’s epic, multi-generational tale threads together a century of Korean history, from the Japanese colonial era, through Liberation, right up to the twenty-first century

In Itamar Vieira Junior’s fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil’s poorest region, an act of shuddering violence binds two sisters together forever

What I’d Rather Not Think About is Jente Posthuma’s deeply moving exploration of grief, told through brief, precise vignettes and full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour

Gabriela Wiener’s provocative, irreverent autobiographical novel reckons with the legacy of colonialism through one Peruvian woman’s family ties to both colonised and coloniser

In a fascinating combination of dreams and dossier facts, Ismail Kadare issues a meditation on Soviet Russia, authoritarianism, power structures and a period of great writers

Narrated against the vivid backdrop of Naples in the 1960s, Domenico Starnone’s The House on Via Gemito is a masterpiece of contemporary Italian literature