Eva Baltasar demonstrates her pre-eminence as a chronicler of queer voices navigating a hostile world - in prose as brittle and beautiful as an ancient saga
By Eva Baltasar
Translated by Julia Sanches
Quiz: which book from the International Booker Prize 2023 longlist should you read?
Quiz: which book from the International Booker Prize 2023 longlist should you read?
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From Korean fairy tale to French horror, Caribbean gospel to Indian melodrama, the International Booker Prize 2023 longlist offers a breadth of remarkable translated fiction. But where to start?
This year’s International Booker Dozen features quality fiction from Africa, Asia, Europe and Latin America, the oldest writer ever to be nominated for the prize, three writers who appear in English for the first time, and books translated from 11 languages. But if you need help navigating the list, our whizzy quiz will help you discover which of the 13 longlisted books is perfect for you.
The International Booker Prize 2023 longlist
An adventure-satire of epic proportions, which sheds new light on the changes Korea experienced in its rapid transition from pre-modern to post-modern society
Translated by Chi-Young Kim
A miracle baby is rumoured to be the child of God. Award-winning Caribbean author Maryse Condé follows his journey in search of his origins and mission
By Maryse Condé
Translated by Richard Philcox
A unique insight into everything that passes under a security guard's gaze, which also serves as a searingly witty deconstruction of colonial legacies and capitalist consumption
By GauZ'
Translated by Frank Wynne
A ‘clinic for the past’ run by an enigmatic therapist offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time to a familiar, safer, happier moment
Translated by Angela Rodel
‘To mother is to murder, or close enough,’ thinks Johanna, as she looks at the spelling of the two words in Norwegian
Translated by Charlotte Barslund
Shot through with Kurkov’s unique brand of black humour and vodka-fuelled magic realism, Jimi Hendrix Live in Lviv is an affectionate portrait of one of the world’s most intriguing cities
Translated by Reuben Woolley
This gripping tale of the violent irruptions of the past into the present, from a major contemporary French writer, is a deft unravelling of the stories we hide from others - and from ourselves
Translated by Daniel Levin Becker
Startlingly raw and deeply moving, this extraordinary debut novel from one of Germany’s most ambitious writers is full of passion, hope and despair
Translated by Katy Derbyshire
Young love is pitted against social discrimination in Perumal Murugan’s powerful and compelling novel, set in the rural Tamil Nadu of the 1980s
Translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan
Guadalupe Nettel’s gripping and insightful fourth novel explores one of life’s most consequential decisions – whether or not to have children
Translated by Rosalind Harvey
This joyful family saga about free will, forgiveness, and interconnection poses a question: are we free to create our own destinies or are we just part of a system beyond our control?
Translated by Nichola Smalley
A fascinating collection of vignettes based on the author’s life in China during the Cultural Revolution
By Zou Jingzhi
Translated by Jeremy Tiang
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