Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2011 Shortlist
The Sickness
$29.95 – Trade paperback / Maclehose Press
Ernesto Duran is convinced he is sick. It becomes an obsession far exceeding hypochondria, and when Dr Andres Miranda gives up responding to his letters and e-mails, Duran resolves to stalk him. The fixation has its own ... Buy or find out more →
I Curse The River Of Time
$32.95$9.95 – Trade paperback / Harvill
An enthralling novel of a mother and son's turbulent relationship from the author of Out Stealing Horses.
It is 1989: Communism is crumbling, and Arvid Jansen, thirtyseven, is facing his first divorce. At the same time, ... Buy or find out more →
Kamchatka
$29.99 – Trade paperback / Atlantic Books
In Buenos Aires, in the mid-Seventies, a ten-year-old boy lives in a world of school lessons and Superman comics, TV shows and games of Risk - a world in which men have superpowers and boys can conquer the globe on a squ... Buy or find out more →
The Museum Of Innocence
$23.99 – Paperback book / Faber
“It was the happiest moment of my life, though I didn’t know it.” So begins the new novel, his first since winning the Nobel Prize, from the universally acclaimed author ofSnowandMy Name Is Red.It is 1975, a perfec... Buy or find out more →
Red April
$22.99 – Paperback book / Atlantic Books
Winner of the 2011 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize.
Translated by Edith Grossman.
The war against the Shining Path is over. Yet when a charred and mutilated body is discovered during Carnival, the people of the small t... Buy or find out more →
The Visitation
$20.95 – Paperback book / New Directions
A house on the forested bank of a Brandenburg lake outside Berlin (once belonging to Erpenbeck’s grandparents) is the focus of this compact, beautiful novel. Encompassing over one hundred years of German history, from th... Buy or find out more →