"Asa: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks" (and two other stories) by Natsuko Imamura Strange stories from Japan which blur the boundaries between reality and illusion. The first story concerns a girl who, growing up, discov...

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From Japan: The Girl Who Turned into a Pair of Chopsticks by Natsuko Imamura

Three stories which blur the boundaries between reality and illusion.

My review: bit.ly/3O3mdLX

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"Narcissus and Goldmund" by Hermann Hesse Sculpture from wood (a pieta) in Durham cathedral   Hesse's exploration of how to reconcile the two sides of human nature: the Apollonian wo...

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From Switzerland (adopted country) Hermann Hesse

Writer of Narziss (Narcissus) and Goldmund

Oh, if a man could change his shape!”

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From Nigeria: An Orchestra of Minorities by Chigozie Obiomoa

Shortlisted for the 2019 Booker

"The worst thing adversity can do to someone is to make them become who they are not."

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"Season of the Swamp" by Yuri Herrera Mid-19th century southern US society analysed from an outsider's viewpoint. In 1853, exiled Mexican politician Benito Juarez arrived in Ne...

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From Mexico: Season of the Swamp by Yuri Herrera

“Inheritance does nothing but perpetuate the number of people who are unproductive.”

My review: bit.ly/40ZC6dT

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"The Birds" by Tarjei Vesaas This book is the interior monologue of Matti, a 37 year old man living with his forty year old sister, Hege, in a small town in Norway. He ...

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From Norway: The Birds by Tarjei Vesaas

"He sat surrounded by baffling problems, waiting with an important question."

My review: bit.ly/47HycXe

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"At Swim-Two-Birds" by Flann O'Brien The key to unlock this labyrinthine but ultimately rewarding book is to realise that it is meta-fiction. In the very first paragraph, the na...

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From Ireland: At Swim-Two-Birds by Flann O'Brien

"Shut the door, said Shanahan, but see you're in the room before you do so."

My review: bit.ly/3rCZpel

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From Spain: A Man of Feeling by Javier Marias

"a person quite prepared to smile for decades whether or not it was appropriate to do so."

My review: bit.ly/3Rc9sOw

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"The Passenger" (Der Reisende) by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz The peregrinations of a Jew trying to escape Hitler's Germany. Otto Silbermann is a successful Jewish businessman who has left it a little t...

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From Germany: The Passenger by Ulrich Alexander Boschwitz

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"Journey to the End of the Night" by Louis-Ferdinand Celine The life journey of an Everyman teaches him to be a cynical misanthropist. Ferdinand Bardamu joins the army at the start of the First World ...

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From France: Journey to the End of Night by Louis-Ferdinand Celine

“You can be a virgin in horror the same as in sex.”

My review: bit.ly/4dpbUwD

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"Zeno's Conscience" by Italo Svevo Zeno is a rich but incredibly ineffectual hypochondriac.  This novel is set in Trieste in the early years of the twentieth century (1900s) w...

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From Austro-Hungary, now Italy:
Italo Svevo's Zeno's Conscience

“Giovanni ... thought at the top of his lungs.”

My review: bit.ly/4cDiQVU

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"The Vegetarian" by Han Kang Winner of the 2016 International Booker Prize by the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature . A bizarre dream persuades Yeong-Hye to...

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From South Korea: the Nobel prize-winner Han Kang's The Vegetarian

Winner of the 2016 International Booker

My review: bit.ly/4fiucQK

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"The Promise" by Damon Galgut Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize. For other winners of the Booker see here . The Swarts are a white South African farming family, clinging on...

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From South Africa: Damon Galgut

The Promise was winner of the 2021 Booker.

My review: bit.ly/3FhKwRo

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"Leonard and Hungry Paul" by Ronan Hession This advertisement for non-toxic masculinity is a gentle book, grounded in normal everyday life, which uses meticulous observation and psych...

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From Ireland: Leonard and Hungry Paul by @ronanhession.bsky.social

“Not for the first time, he longed for an ‘undo’ button in his life.”

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"Time Shelter" by Georgi Gospodinov This book won the International Booker Prize in 2023. The author and narrator (GG) meets a mysterious man called Gaustine (G) at a conferen...

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Bulgaria: Time Shelter by Georgi Gospodinov
(International Booker winner 2023)

“We eat time and produce the past."

My review: bit.ly/3QYgHgi

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"The Vegetarian" by Han Kang Winner of the 2016 International Booker Prize by the winner of the 2024 Nobel Prize for Literature . A bizarre dream persuades Yeong-Hye to...

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South Korea: Han Kang (winner of the Nobel 2024)

The Vegetarian (winner of the International Booker 2016

“Her lips stained with blood like clumsily applied lipstick.”

My review: bit.ly/4fiucQK

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"Juice" by Tim Winton Searching for refuge in a post-apocalyptic world, a man is forced to tell his life story, hoping to convince a bowman not to kill him. This...

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Australia: Juice by Tim Winton

“Isn't there more to courage than suffering?”

My review: bit.ly/4jFKruD

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😰😰😰😰trying to concientiously dispose of some of my mother's art books

Someone suggested trading with #worldbooks

I am perplexed

They're offering 67p for a hardback book which they have listed, selling at £11.90

Why would I trade with them?