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1 month ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Ibtisam Azem |Sean Cotter |Christian Kracht |Daniel Bowles
We’re offering you the chance to win one of five bundles made up of all 13 longlisted titles in contention for this year’s International Booker Prize Publication date and time: Published March 4, 2025To celebrate the announcement of the International Booker Prize 2025 longlist, we are giving you the chance to win a set of all 13 titles that are in contention for this year’s prize.
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1 month ago | 
indianprinterpublisher.com | IPP Desk |Vincenzo Latronico |Sophie Hughes |Christian Kracht
The International Booker Prize 2025 recently announced its longlist. The longlist of 13 books – 11 novels and two collections of short stories – was chosen by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter. The other judges are: poet, director and photographer Caleb Femi; writer and publishing director of Wasafiri Sana Goyal; author and International Booker Prize-shortlisted translator Anton Hur; and singer-songwriter Beth Orton.
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1 month ago | 
thebookerprizes.substack.com | Ibtisam Azem |Sean Cotter |Christian Kracht |Daniel Bowles
The longlist for this year’s International Booker Prize, which celebrates the best works of long-form fiction or collections of short stories translated into English, is announced today. The 13 books – 11 novels and two collections of short stories – feature 13 authors making their International Booker Prize debut, many of whom are literary sensations and award-winners in their home countries, and three previously longlisted translators.
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1 month ago | 
thebookerprizes.com | Ibtisam Azem |Sinan Antoon |Sean Cotter |Christian Kracht
The 2025 longlist for the International Booker Prize, the world’s most influential award for translated fiction, is announced today, Tuesday, 25 FebruaryThe longlist of 13 books – 11 novels and two collections of short stories – has been chosen by the 2025 judging panel, chaired by bestselling Booker Prize-longlisted author Max Porter.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
lesen.de | T. C. Boyle |Christian Kracht |H. P. Lovecraft |Joshua Cohen
Denied a dog, a baby, and even a faithful fiancé, Cat suddenly craves a snake: a glistening, writhing creature that can be worn like "jewelry, living jewelry" to match her black jeans. But when the budding social media star promptly loses the young "Burmie" she buys from a local pet store, she inadvertently sets in motion a chain of increasingly dire and outrageous events that comes to threaten her very survival. "Brilliantly imaginative . . .
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Aug 2, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Kracht |Cherry Lou Sy |Yoko Tawada |Cebo Campbell
Karl Ove Knausgaard, trans. from the Norwegian by Martin Aitken. Penguin Press, $32 (512p) ISBN 978-0-593-65521-4The intense third installment in Knausgaard’s Morning Star series (after The Wolves of Eternity) teems with carnage and interpersonal drama in the wake of a new star’s appearance in the skies above Norway.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Kracht |Cherry Lou Sy |Yoko Tawada |Cebo Campbell
Asha Thanki. Viking, $29 (368p) ISBN 978-0-593-65464-4Thanki debuts with a gorgeous fantastical tale of family history and political strife, spanning from the 1947 Partition of India to the present. It’s told by Ayukta, a Brooklyn artist, to her partner, Nadya, by way of explaining why she’s hesitant to have children. Ayukta’s family has an ancient magical tapestry, and when a new family member is sewn into it, the person receives the ability to shape the future.
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Jul 30, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Kracht |Cherry Lou Sy |Yoko Tawada |Cebo Campbell
Carolyn Kuebler. Melville House, $19.99 trade paper (352p) ISBN 978-1-68589-109-1Kuebler debuts with a pitch-perfect narrative of a small Vermont town and the intersecting lives of its residents. Some of the novel’s many characters are directly impacted by the arrival of Jim and Sarah Calper, who move to Glenville, Vt., from New York City with their teenage son, Will. Drama ensues after Will attracts attention from his classmate Sophie, a budding singer-songwriter.
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Jul 29, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Kracht |Cherry Lou Sy |Yoko Tawada |Cebo Campbell
Djuna Barnes. McNally Editions, $18 trade paper (240p) ISBN 978-1-961341-22-7This supple collection from Barnes (1892–1982) shaves the themes of lost innocence, unrequited love, and death of her modernist masterwork, Nightwood, into febrile confessions. In “A Night Among the Horses,” a groomsman falls impossibly in love with a woman who tries in vain to make him into a gentleman, and his determination to stay among his horses leads to a stark outcome.
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Jul 23, 2024 | 
publishersweekly.com | Christian Kracht |Philipp Felsch |Renee Gladman |Cebo Campbell
Christian Kracht, trans. from the German by Daniel Bowles. Liveright, $25.99 (192p) ISBN 978-1-324-09456-2It’s autofiction on the autobahn in this incendiary outing from Kracht (Imperium). A middle-aged writer named Christian Kracht visits his mother in Zurich, where she’s been living alone and subsisting on vodka, phenobarbital, and cheese slices since divorcing her rich husband.
