National Book Awards Longlist for Translated Literature 2019 — Readings Books

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The Barefoot Woman

Scholastique Mukasonga

The story of the author’s mother, a fierce, loving woman who for years protected her family from the violence encroaching upon them in pre-genocide Rwanda. Recording her memories of their…

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Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming

Laszlo Krasznahorkai (New Directions)

Set in contemporary times, Baron Wenckheim’s Homecoming tells the story of a Prince Myshkin-like figure, Baron Bela Wenckheim, who returns at the end of his life to his provincial Hungarian…

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Space Invaders

Nona Fernandez

A dreamlike evocation of a generation that grew up in the shadow of a dictatorship in 1980s Chile.

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The Collector of Leftover Souls: Dispatches from Brazil

Eliane Brum

Welcome to the favela, welcome to the rainforest, welcome to the real Brazil.

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Crossing

Pajtim Statovci

Originally published in Finland as Tiranan syd an by Kustannusoakeyhti o Otava, Keuruu, in 2016 –Title page verso.

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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead

Olga Tokarczuk, Antonia Lloyd-Jones (trans.)

A subversive, entertaining noir novel from the winner of the 2018 Man Booker Prize.

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