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Post by Liiisa on Apr 7, 2024 6:15:30 GMT -5
Here's the International Booker longlist, in case you hadn't seen it yet; shortlist is to be announced on Tuesday. I've only read one of these so far ("Kairos") and found it INCREDIBLY ANNOYING to the point that I would have abandoned it except that the setting was interesting. But everything else sounds interesting: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/international/2024 |
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Post by Q-pee on Apr 7, 2024 9:26:11 GMT -5
haven't ready any of them, I can see two or three that I'll do the kindle free read a chapter tactic and maybe purchase... but if you found Kairos annoying pretty sure I will as well  |
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Post by lillielangtry on Apr 7, 2024 10:22:05 GMT -5
No, neither have I, but I have read other books by Kurkov, Almada, Wiener and Erpenbeck.
I'd most like to read the Gabriela Wiener.
As for Kairos, I may be wrong because I'm not totally clued into the German-speaking literary community, but I feel like I see Erpenbeck's work more in translation than in the original. I wonder why she seems to appeal to the English market, or at least its literary prizes, more than her own.
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