For the  #Service95 #BookClub, #DuaLipa interviews #VincentDelecroix, the author of #SmallBoat, her Monthly Read For July. www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASQI... 📚

Finished #SmallBoat
#VincentDelecroix

That is exactly what I said, but perhaps it was him saying it as he drowned…I could hear nothing, wanted to hear nothing, because I had heard without hearing. I said or he said to me: You're not hearing me, you will not be saved.

#SmallBoat
#VincentDelecroix
I didn't ask you to leave…I didn't push you into the water, I didn't fetch you from your village…put you in your wretched leaky boat, and now the water's up to your ankles, I get it that you're frightened, and you want me to save you…But I didn't ask you for any of that.

Small Boat by Vincent Delecroix — a powerful reimagining of a migrant tragedy Shortlisted for the International Booker, the French philosopher’s new novel is a damning exploration of apathy in the face of calamity

I reviewed Small Boat by #VincentDelecroix, translated by Helen Stevenson, for @financialtimes.com
- a powerful reimagining of a migrant tragedy shortlisted for the international #InternationalBookerPrize
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#SmallBoat #VincentDelecroix #HelenStevenson Powerful, troubling, essential reading #InternationalBooker2025 @thebookerprizes.bsky.social