Man Booker International Prize 2018 Longlist

Frankenstein in Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi (Author) Jonathan Wright (Translated by) Series:

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Oneworld Publications

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Oneworld Publications

Pub Date:

06 Sep 2018

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Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 272pp h198mm x w129mm MMP ISBN13: 9781786073976 ISBN13: 978-1-78607-397-6 ISBN10: 1786073978 EAN: 9781786073976 x Description: 'Extraordinary... A devastating but essential read.' Kevin Powers, bestselling author and National Book Award finalist for The Yellow Birds

'Gripping, darkly humorous...profound.' Phil Klay, bestselling author and National Book Award winner for Redeployment

WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL PRIZE FOR ARABIC FICTION

From the rubble-strewn streets of US-occupied Baghdad, the scavenger Hadi collects human body parts and stitches them together to create a corpse.

His goal, he claims, is for the government to recognize the parts as people and give them a proper burial. But when the corpse goes missing, a wave of eerie murders sweeps the city, and reports stream in of a horrendous-looking criminal who, though shot, cannot be killed. Hadi soon realises he has created a monster, one that needs human flesh to survive - first from the guilty, and then from anyone who crosses its path.

An extraordinary achievement, Frankenstein in Baghdad captures with white-knuckle horror and black humour the surreal reality of a city at war. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Frankenstein in Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi (Author) Series:

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Penguin Books

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Penguin Books

Pub Date:

23 Jan 2018

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Paperback Trade paperback (US) 288pp h198mm x w130mm x s20mm 181g ISBN13: 9780143128793 ISBN13: 978-0-14-312879-3 ISBN10: 0143128795 EAN: 9780143128793 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Like a Fading Shadow Antonio Munoz Molina (Author) Camilo A. Ramirez (Translated by) Series:

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Serpent's Tail

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Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

29 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 320pp h198mm x w129mm B Format Paperback ISBN13: 9781781258941 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-894-1 ISBN10: 1781258945 EAN: 9781781258941 x Description: On April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentencing to 99 years' imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for two months as he crossed the globe under various aliases. At the heart of his story is Lisbon, where he spent ten days attempting to acquire an Angolan visa.

Like a Fading Shadow traces three journeys to the city: Ray's desperate attempt to evade justice in 1968; a research trip undertaken by the young Munoz Molina for his breakthrough novel Winter in Lisbon in 1987; and the return journey taken by the novelist as he attempts to reconstruct these twin stories from the instability of the past, and interrogates his own obsession with one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures.

Aided by the recent declassification of James Earl Ray's FBI case file, Like a Fading Shadow boldly weaves a taut retelling of Ray's assassination of King, his time on the run and his eventual capture together with a highly original, fearlessly honest examination of the novelist's own past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Like a Fading Shadow Antonio Munoz Molina (Author) Camilo A. Ramirez (Translated by) Series:

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Tuskar Rock

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Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Nov 2017

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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback Trade binding 320pp h240mm x w162mm x s33mm 622g Hardback ISBN13: 9781781258934 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-893-4 ISBN10: 1781258937 EAN: 9781781258934 x Description: Long-listed for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 On April 4th 1968, Martin Luther King was murdered by a man named James Earl Ray. Before Ray's capture and sentencing to 99 years' imprisonment, he evaded the FBI for two months as he crossed the globe under various aliases. At the heart of his story is Lisbon, where he spent ten days attempting to acquire an Angolan visa.

Like a Fading Shadow traces three journeys to the city: Ray's desperate attempt to evade justice in 1968; a research trip undertaken by the young Munoz Molina for his breakthrough novel Winter in Lisbon in 1987; and the return journey taken by the novelist as he attempts to reconstruct these twin stories from the instability of the past, and interrogates his own obsession with one of the twentieth century's most notorious figures.

Aided by the recent declassification of James Earl Ray's FBI case file, Like a Fading Shadow boldly weaves a taut retelling of Ray's assassination of King, his time on the run and his eventual capture together with a highly original, fearlessly honest examination of the novelist's own past. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Like a Fading Shadow Antonio Munoz Molina (Author) Camilo A Ramirez (Translated by) Series:

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Publisher:

Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Pub Date:

18 Jul 2017

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Published in: United States Hardback Sewn 320pp h234mm x w160mm x s25mm 499g ISBN13: 9780374126902 ISBN13: 978-0-374-12690-2 ISBN10: 0374126909 EAN: 9780374126902 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Like a Fading Shadow Antonio Munoz Molina (Author) Camilo A Ramirez (Translated by) Series:

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Picador USA

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Picador USA

Pub Date:

17 Jul 2018

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Paperback Trade paperback (US) 320pp h210mm x w137mm x s0mm ISBN13: 9781250182432 ISBN13: 978-1-250-18243-2 ISBN10: 1250182433 EAN: 9781250182432 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HHhH Laurent Binet (Author) Series:

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Vintage

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Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

03 Jan 2013

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s21mm 234g ISBN13: 9780099555643 ISBN13: 978-0-09-955564-3 ISBN10: 0099555646 EAN: 9780099555643 x Description: THE INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER Two men have been enlisted to kill the head of the Gestapo. This is Operation Anthropoid, Prague, 1942: two Czechoslovakian parachutists sent on a daring mission by London to assassinate Reinhard Heydrich - chief of the Nazi secret services, 'the hangman of Prague', 'the blond beast', 'the most dangerous man in the Third Reich'. His boss is Heinrich Himmler but everyone in the SS says 'Himmler's brain is called Heydrich', which in German spells HHhH. HHhH is a panorama of the Third Reich told through the life of one outstandingly brutal man, a story of unbearable heroism and loyalty, revenge and betrayal. It is a moving and shattering work of fiction.

Laurent Binet's highly anticipated new novel, The Seventh Function of Language, is available for pre-order now... _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

HHhH Laurent Binet (Author) Series:

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Librairie generale francaise

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Librairie generale francaise

Pub Date:

28 Apr 2011

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Published in: France Paperback ISBN13: 9782253157342 ISBN13: 978-2-253-15734-2 ISBN10: 2253157341 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Der Fliegende Berg Christoph Ransmayr (Author) Series:

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Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

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Fischer Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH

Pub Date:

07 Nov 2007

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Language: German Published in: Germany Paperback ISBN13: 9783596171958 ISBN13: 978-3-596-17195-8 ISBN10: 3596171954 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Flying Mountain Christoph Ransmayr (Author) Simon Pare (Translated by) Series:

The German List

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Seagull Books London Ltd Publisher:

Seagull Books London Ltd

Pub Date:

12 Apr 2018

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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 336pp h229mm x w152mm ISBN13: 9780857424747 ISBN13: 978-0-85742-474-7 ISBN10: 0857424742 EAN: 9780857424747 x Description: In a publishing world that is all too full of realist novels written in undistinguished prose, discernible only by their covers, The Flying Mountain stands out if for no other reason than that it consists entirely of blank verse. And that form is most suitable for the epic voyage Christoph Ransmayr relates: The Flying Mountain tells the story of two brothers who leave the southwest coast of Ireland on an expedition to Transhimalaya, the land of Kham, and the mountains of eastern Tibet looking for an untamed, unnamed mountain that represents perhaps the last blank spot on the map.

As they advance toward their goal, the brothers find their past, and their rivalry, inescapable, inflecting every encounter and decision as they are drawn farther and farther from the world they once knew. Only one of the brothers will return. Transformed by his loss, he starts life anew, attempting to understand the mystery of love, yet another quest that may prove impossible. The Flying Mountain is thrilling, surprising, and lyrical by turns; readers looking for something truly new will be rewarded for joining Ransmayr on this journey. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Dinner Guest Gabriela Ybarra (Author) Natasha Wimmer (Translated by) Series:

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Harvill Secker

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Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

01 Mar 2018

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 160pp h216mm x w135mm x s12mm 177g ISBN13: 9781910701980 ISBN13: 978-1-910701-98-0 ISBN10: 191070198X EAN: 9781910701980 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE 2018 MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE The Dinner Guest is Gabriela Ybarra's prizewinning literary debut: a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy.

The story goes that in my family there's an extra dinner guest at every meal. He's invisible, but always there. He has a plate, glass, knife and fork.

Every so often he appears, casts his shadow over the table, and erases one of those present.

The first to vanish was my grandfather.

In 1977, three terrorists broke into Gabriela Ybarra's grandfather's home, and pointed a gun at him in the shower.

This was the last time his family saw him alive, and his kidnapping played out in the press, culminating in his murder.

Ybarra first heard the story when she was eight, but it was only after her mother's death, years later, that she felt the need to go deeper and discover more about her family's past.

The Dinner Guest is a novel, with the feel of documentary non-fiction. It connects two life-changing events - the very public death of Ybarra's grandfather, and the more private pain as her mother dies from cancer and Gabriela cares for her. Devastating yet luminous, the book is an investigation, marking the arrival of a talented new voice in international fiction. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Human Acts Han Kang (Y) (Author) Series:

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Portobello Books Ltd

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

03 Nov 2016

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 224pp h198mm x w129mm x s14mm 173g ISBN13: 9781846275975 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-597-5 ISBN10: 1846275970 EAN: 9781846275975 x Description: Gwangju, South Korea, 1980. In the wake of a viciously suppressed student uprising, a boy searches for his friend's corpse, a consciousness searches for its abandoned body, and a brutalised country searches for a voice. In a sequence of interconnected chapters the victims and the bereaved encounter censorship, denial, forgiveness and the echoing agony of the original trauma.Human Acts is a universal book, utterly modern and profoundly timeless. Already a controversial bestseller and award-winning book in Korea, it confirms Han Kang as a writer of immense importance. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Vegetarian: A Novel Han Kang (Author) Deborah Smith (Translated by) Series:

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Portobello Books Ltd

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

05 Nov 2015

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 160pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781846276033 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-603-3 ISBN10: 1846276039 EAN: 9781846276033 x Description: Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more 'plant-like' existence, decides to become a vegetarian, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares. In South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, Yeong-hye's decision is a shocking act of subversion. Her passive rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, leading her bland husband to self-justified acts of sexual sadism. His cruelties drive her towards attempted suicide and hospitalisation. She unknowingly captivates her sister's husband, a video artist. She becomes the focus of his increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, while spiralling further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming - impossibly, ecstatically - a tree. Fraught, disturbing and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern day South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The White Book Han Kang (Y) (Author) Deborah Smith (Translated by) Series:

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Portobello Books Ltd

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

03 May 2018

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 128pp h198mm x w130mm x s15mm 250g ISBN13: 9781846276958 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-695-8 ISBN10: 1846276950 EAN: 9781846276958 x Description: From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for The Vegetarian

From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. It is a book about mourning, rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life.

Translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Impostor: A True Story Javier Cercas (Author) Series:

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Knopf Publishing Group

Publisher:

Knopf Publishing Group

Pub Date:

28 Aug 2018

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Hardback Sewn 384pp h235mm x w159mm x s27mm 710g ISBN13: 9781524732813 ISBN13: 978-1-5247-3281-3 ISBN10: 1524732818 EAN: 9781524732813

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The Impostor Javier Cercas (Author) Frank Wynne (Translated by) Series:

MacLehose Press Editions

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MacLehose Press

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Pub Date:

09 Aug 2018

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 432pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9780857056528 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-652-8 ISBN10: 0857056522 EAN: 9780857056528 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018 Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain's leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked in Austria in 2005 on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp, he has become a civic hero, speaking at hundreds of conferences, granting dozens of interviews, receiving state honours, publishing a successful memoir and even moving Spanish congressmen to tears at a memorial homage to Republicans deported by the Third Reich.

The case shocked the world, and Enric Marco was labelled a great imposter to which he responded: "I am an impostor, but not a fraud."

A decade later, Javier Cercas addresses the enigma of the man, his truths and lies, and, through an investigation that unravels Spain's history in the twentieth century, delves with passion and unflinching honesty into that deepest part of human nature - our infinite capacity for self-deception, our need for conformity, our lies, our insatiable thirst for affection and our opposing needs for fiction and reality.

The Impostor is an extraordinary novel that not only tells Marco's self-deluding story, but also challenges the reader to consider how truthful any of us is in the way we present ourselves in daily life. Are we not all, asks Cercas, the novelists of our own lives?

Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Impostor Javier Cercas (Author) Frank Wynne (Translated by) Series:

MacLehose Press Editions

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Imprint:

MacLehose Press

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Pub Date:

02 Nov 2017

Publishing Status:

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 432pp h212mm x w147mm x s38mm 538g ISBN13: 9780857056511 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-651-1 ISBN10: 0857056514 EAN: 9780857056511 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018

Who is Enric Marco? An old man from Barcelona who claims to be a Nazi concentration camp survivor and rises to be president of Spain's leading Holocaust survivor movement, the Friends of Mauthausen. By the time he is unmasked in Austria in 2005 on the eve of the seventieth anniversary of the liberation of the camp, he has become a civic hero, speaking at hundreds of conferences, granting dozens of interviews, receiving state honours, publishing a successful memoir and even moving Spanish congressmen to tears at a memorial homage to Republicans deported by the Third Reich.

The case shocked the world, and Enric Marco was labelled a great imposter to which he responded: "I am an impostor, but not a fraud."

A decade later, Javier Cercas addresses the enigma of the man, his truths and lies, and, through an investigation that unravels Spain's history in the twentieth century, delves with passion and unflinching honesty into that deepest part of human nature - our infinite capacity for self-deception, our need for conformity, our lies, our insatiable thirst for affection and our opposing needs for fiction and reality.

The Impostor is an extraordinary novel that not only tells Marco's self-deluding story, but also challenges the reader to consider how truthful any of us

is in the way we present ourselves in daily life. Are we not all, asks Cercas, the novelists of our own lives?

Translated from the Spanish by Frank Wynne _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck (Y) (Author) Series:

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Imprint:

Portobello Books Ltd

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

02 Aug 2018

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 304pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781846276224 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-622-4 ISBN10: 1846276225 EAN: 9781846276224 x Description: One of the great contemporary European writers takes on Europe's biggest issue Richard has spent his life as a university professor, immersed in the world of books and ideas, but now he is retired, his books remain in their packing boxes and he steps into the streets of his city, Berlin. Here, on Alexanderplatz, he discovers a new community -- a tent city, established by African asylum seekers. Hesitantly, getting to know the new arrivals, Richard finds his life changing, as he begins to question his own sense of belonging in a city that once divided its citizens into them and us.

At once a passionate contribution to the debate on race, privilege and nationality and a beautifully written examination of an ageing man's quest to find meaning in his life, Go, Went, Gone showcases one of the great contemporary European writers at the height of her powers. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Go, Went, Gone Jenny Erpenbeck (New Directions) (Author) Susan Bernofsky (Columbia University) (Translated by) Series:

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New Directions Publishing Corporation

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03 Oct 2017

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Published in: United States Paperback With flaps 320pp h203mm x w137mm x s23mm 320g ISBN13: 9780811225946 ISBN13: 978-0-8112-2594-6 ISBN10: 0811225941 EAN: 9780811225946 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The End of Days Jenny Erpenbeck (Author) Susan Bernofsky (Translated by) Series:

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Portobello Books Ltd

Publisher:

Granta Books

Pub Date:

28 May 2015

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 192pp h198mm x w129mm ISBN13: 9781846275159 ISBN13: 978-1-84627-515-9 ISBN10: 1846275156 EAN: 9781846275159 x Description: Winner of the 2015 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize From one of the most daring voices in European fiction, this is a story of the twentieth century traced through the various possible lives of one woman. She is a baby who barely suffocates in the cradle. Or perhaps not? She

lives to become as an adult and dies beloved. Or dies betrayed. Or perhaps not? Her memory is honoured. Or she is forgotten by everyone. Moving from a small Galician town at the turn of the century, through pre-war Vienna and Stalin's Moscow to present-day Berlin, Jenny Erpenbeck homes in on the moments when life follows a particular branch and 'fate' suddenly emerges from the sly interplay between history, character and pure chance. The End of Days is a novel that pulls apart the threads of destiny and allows us to see the present and the past anew. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Melancholy of Resistance Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Author) George Szirtes (Translated by) Series:

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Main

Imprint:

Tuskar Rock

Publisher:

Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

12 May 2016

Publishing Status:

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 336pp h198mm x w129mm x s20mm 281g Trade Paperback ISBN13: 9781781256244 ISBN13: 978-1-78125-624-4 ISBN10: 1781256241 EAN: 9781781256244 x Description: Winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize The Melancholy of Resistance, Laszlo Krasznahorkai's magisterial, surreal novel, depicts a chain of mysterious events in a small Hungarian town.

A circus, promising to display the stuffed body of the largest whale in the world, arrives in the dead of winter, prompting bizarre rumours. Word spreads that the circus folk have a sinister purpose in mind, and the frightened citizens cling to any manifestation of order they can find - music, cosmology, fascism.

The novel's characters are unforgettable: the evil Mrs. Eszter, plotting her takeover of the town; her weakling husband; and Valuska, our hapless hero with his head in the clouds, who is the tender centre of the book, the only pure and noble soul to be found.

Compact, powerful and intense, The Melancholy of Resistance, as its enormously gifted translator George Szirtes puts it, 'is a slow lava flow of narrative, a vast black river of type.' And yet, miraculously, the novel, in the words of Guardian, 'lifts the reader along in lunar leaps and bounds.' _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The World Goes On Laszlo Krasznahorkai (Author) Ottilie Mulzet (Translated by) George Szirtes (Translated by) John Batki (Translated by) Series:

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Main

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Profile Books Ltd

Publisher:

Profile Books Ltd

Pub Date:

02 Nov 2017

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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback Trade binding 320pp h222mm x w144mm x s30mm 461g Hardback ISBN13: 9781788160117 ISBN13: 978-1-78816-011-7 ISBN10: 1788160118 EAN: 9781788160117 x Description: Long-listed for The Man Booker International Prize 2018 A Hungarian interpreter obsessed with waterfalls, at the edge of the abyss in his own mind, wanders the chaotic streets of Shanghai. A traveller, reeling from the sights and sounds of Varanasi, encounters a giant of a man on the banks of the Ganges ranting on the nature of a single drop of water. A child labourer in a Portuguese marble quarry wanders off from work one day into a surreal realm utterly alien from his daily toils.

In The World Goes On, a narrator first speaks directly, tells twenty-one unforgettable stories, then bids farewell ('for here I would leave this earth and these stars, because I would take nothing with me'). As Laszlo Krasznahorkai himself explains: 'Each text is about drawing our attention away from this world, speeding our body toward annihilation, and immersing ourselves in a current of thought or a narrative...'

The World Goes On is another masterpiece by the winner of the 2015 Man Booker International Prize. 'The excitement of his writing,' Adam Thirlwell proclaimed in the New York Review of Books, 'is that he has come up with his own original forms-there is nothing else like it in contemporary literature.'

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The 7th Function of Language Laurent Binet (Author) Sam Taylor (Translated by) Series:

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Vintage

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Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

04 Jan 2018

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 400pp h198mm x w129mm x s24mm 277g ISBN13: 9781784703196 ISBN13: 978-1-78470-319-6 ISBN10: 1784703192 EAN: 9781784703196 x Description: 'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - Observer Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand.

Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.

But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language - an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.

Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power to backstreet saunas and midnight meetings. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The 7th Function of Language Laurent Binet (Author) Sam Taylor (Translated by) Series:

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Imprint:

Harvill Secker

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

04 May 2017

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Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 400pp h216mm x w135mm x s28mm 423g ISBN13: 9781910701591 ISBN13: 978-1-910701-59-1 ISBN10: 1910701599 EAN: 9781910701591 x Description: Roland Barthes, one of the twentieth-century's towering literary figures, is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, who is locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.

But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? That document was the key to the seventh function of language - an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.

Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a global chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous. What they discover is a global conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society. In the world of intellectuals and politicians, everyone is a suspect. And who can you trust when the idea of truth itself is at stake? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The 7th Function of Language Laurent Binet (Author) Sam Taylor (Translated by) Series:

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Imprint:

Harvill Secker

Publisher:

Vintage Publishing

Pub Date:

04 May 2017

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Published in: United Kingdom Hardback 400pp h222mm x w144mm x s35mm 541g ISBN13: 9781910701584 ISBN13: 978-1-910701-58-4 ISBN10: 1910701580 EAN: 9781910701584 x Description: 'One of the funniest, most riotously inventive and enjoyable novels you'll read this year' - Observer `The most outrageously entertaining novel of the year... A joy' - Philip Hensher Roland Barthes is knocked down in a Paris street by a laundry van. It's February 1980 and he has just come from lunch with Francois Mitterrand, a slippery politician locked in a battle for the Presidency. Barthes dies soon afterwards. History tells us it was an accident.

But what if it were an assassination? What if Barthes was carrying a document of unbelievable, global importance? A document explaining the seventh function of language - an idea so powerful it gives whoever masters it the ability to convince anyone, in any situation, to do anything.

Police Captain Jacques Bayard and his reluctant accomplice Simon Herzog set off on a chase that takes them from the corridors of power and academia to backstreet saunas and midnight rendezvous. What they discover is a worldwide conspiracy involving the President, murderous Bulgarians and a secret international debating society.

In the world of intellectuals and politicians, everyone is a suspect. Who can you trust when the idea of truth itself is at stake? _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Flights Olga Tokarczuk (Author) Jennifer Croft (Translated by) Series:

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

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Fitzcarraldo Editions

Pub Date:

17 May 2017

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Translated From: Polish Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 424pp h197mm x w125mm ISBN13: 9781910695432 ISBN13: 978-1-910695-43-2 ISBN10: 1910695432 x Description: FLIGHTS, a novel about travel in the twenty-first century and human anatomy, is Olga Tokarczuk's most ambitious to date. It interweaves travel narratives and reflections on travel with an in-depth exploration of the human body, broaching life, death, motion, and migration. From the seventeenth century, we have the story of the Dutch anatomist Philip Verheyen, who dissected and drew pictures of his own amputated leg. From the eighteenth century, we have the story of a North African-born slave turned Austrian courtier stuffed and put on display after his death. In the nineteenth century, we follow Chopin's heart as it makes the covert journey from Paris to Warsaw. In the present we have the trials of a wife accompanying her much older husband as he teaches a course on a cruise ship in the Greek islands, and the harrowing story of a young husband whose wife and child mysteriously vanish on a holiday on a Croatian island. With her signature grace and insight, Olga Tokarczuk guides the reader beyond the surface layer of modernity and towards the core of the very nature of humankind. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Flights Olga Tokarczuk (Author) Series:

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Imprint:

Riverhead Books

Publisher:

Riverhead Books

Pub Date:

14 Aug 2018

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Hardback Sewn 416pp h210mm x w140mm x s26mm 547g ISBN13: 9780525534198 ISBN13: 978-0-525-53419-8 ISBN10: 0525534199 EAN: 9780525534198 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Die, My Love Ariana Harwicz (Author) Sarah Moses (Translated by) Carolina Orloff (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Charco Press

Publisher:

Charco Press

Pub Date:

04 Sep 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback ISBN13: 9781999722784 ISBN13: 978-1-9997227-8-4 ISBN10: 1999722787 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vernon Subutex 1: English edition Virginie Despentes (Author) Frank Wynne (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

MacLehose Press

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Pub Date:

22 Mar 2018

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback B-format paperback 352pp h204mm x w201mm x s22mm 248g ISBN13: 9780857055422 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-542-2 ISBN10: 0857055429 EAN: 9780857055422 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018

WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend.

A fall from grace.

The mirror who reflects us all.

Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut, and the friend who had been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself down and out on the Paris streets.

He has one final card up his sleeve. Even as he holds out his hand to beg for the first time, a throwaway comment he once made on Facebook is taking the internet by storm. Vernon does not realise this, but the word is out: Vernon Subutex has in his possession the last filmed recordings of Alex Bleach, the famous musician and Vernon's benefactor, who has only just died of a drug overdose. A crowd of people from record producers to online

trolls and porn stars are now on Vernon's trail.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vernon Subutex 1: English edition Virginie Despentes (Author) Frank Wynne (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

MacLehose Press

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Pub Date:

27 Jun 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 352pp h217mm x w174mm x s30mm 446g ISBN13: 9780857055415 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-541-5 ISBN10: 0857055410 EAN: 9780857055415 x Description: LONGLISTED FOR THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL 2018

WHO IS VERNON SUBUTEX? An urban legend. A fall from grace. The mirror who reflects us all.

Vernon Subutex was once the proprietor of Revolver, an infamous music shop in Bastille. His legend spread throughout Paris. But by the 2000s his shop is struggling. With his savings gone, his unemployment benefit cut, and the friend who had been covering his rent suddenly dead, Vernon Subutex finds himself down and out on the Paris streets.

He has one final card up his sleeve. Even as he holds out his hand to beg for the first time, a throwaway comment he once made on Facebook is taking the internet by storm. Vernon does not realise this, but the word is out: Vernon Subutex has in his possession the last filmed recordings of Alex Bleach, the famous musician and Vernon's benefactor, who has only just died of a drug overdose. A crowd of people from record producers to online trolls and porn stars are now on Vernon's trail.

Translated from the French by Frank Wynne _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vernon Subutex 1 Virginie Despentes (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Librairie generale francaise

Publisher:

Librairie generale francaise

Pub Date:

02 Mar 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: France General merchandise ISBN13: 9782253087663 ISBN13: 978-2-253-08766-3 ISBN10: 2253087661 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vernon Subutex 2 Virginie Despentes (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Librairie generale francaise

Publisher:

Librairie generale francaise

Pub Date:

30 Mar 2016

Publishing Status:

Active

Language: French Published in: France Paperback h178mm x w110mm x s20mm ISBN13: 9782253087670 ISBN13: 978-2-253-08767-0 ISBN10: 225308767X x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

Vernon Subutex 2 Virginie Despentes (Author) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

MacLehose Press

Publisher:

Quercus Publishing

Pub Date:

12 Jun 2018

Publishing Status:

Forthcoming

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback Trade paperback (UK) 384pp h210mm x w138mm ISBN13: 9780857055828 ISBN13: 978-0-85705-582-8 ISBN10: 0857055828 EAN: 9780857055828 x Description: Vernon Subutex is still on the streets. Hanging around with alcohol-soaked Charles in the Parc de Buttes Chaumont, feverish and hallucinating, he is completely cut off from the wider world and unaware that he is the subject of a frantic search by a crowd of hunters hot on the trail of the last recordings of the famous dead musician, Alex Bleach.

But just imagine that one of these hunters finally gets hold of the precious tapes. What might they contain? The answer could have shocking - almost apocalyptic - consequences. _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

The Stolen Bicycle Ming-Yi Wu (Author) Darryl Sterk (Translated by) Series:

Edition:

Imprint:

Text Publishing

Publisher:

Text Publishing

Pub Date:

26 Oct 2017

Publishing Status:

Active

Published in: United Kingdom Paperback 396pp h234mm x w153mm ISBN13: 9781911231158 ISBN13: 978-1-911231-15-8 ISBN10: 1911231154 EAN: 9781911231158 x _______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________