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It's an exciting time for international literature, and the breadth and diversity of these longlists reflect that.

From established authors like Javier Marías to new voices like Basma Abdel Aziz, from works of speculative fiction like Wicked Weeds to family sagas from Senegal like Doomi Golo, there’s something on here for every type of reader.

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Best Translated Book Award 2017

Founded in 2008 by Three Percent at the University or Rochester, the focus on finding the best books in translation from the past year has been constant.

Super Extra Grande

Yoss and David Frye

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“Intergalactic space travel meets outrageous, biting satire in Super Extra Grande…. Its author...

Science fiction

Moshi Moshi

Banana Yoshimoto and Asa Yoneda

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In Moshi-Moshi, Yoshie’s much-loved musician father has died in a suicide pact with an unknown...

Fiction

My Marriage

Jakob Wassermann and Michael Hofmann

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Alexander Herzog, a young writer, goes to Vienna to escape his debts and a failed love affair. There...

Thriller

Vampire in Love

Margaret Jull Costa and Enrique Vila-Matas

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“Arguably Spain’s most significant contemporary literary figure” (Joanna Kavenna, The New...

Fiction

Memoirs of a Polar Bear

Susan Bernofsky and Yoko Tawada

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Someone tickled me behind my ears, under my arms. I curled up, became a full moon, and rolled on the...

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BookCritics (259 KP) rated Borne in Books

May 16, 2017

Borne

Jeff VanderMeer | 2017 | Fiction & Poetry

10.0

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“Borne” is a work that exemplifies the notion of pick-and-choose literature; there are elements of science fiction and fantasy of course, but also flavors of thriller and love story and coming of age.

Critic- Allen Adams
Original Score- 5 out of 5

Read Review: http://www.themaineedge.com/buzz/jeff-vandermeers-weird-wonderful-borne

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On the Nature of Things

Lucretius and Frank O. Copley

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This great poem stands with Virgil's Aeneid as one of the vital and enduring achievements of Latin...

Edmund White recommended Our Lady of the Flowers in Books (curated)

Our Lady of the Flowers

Jean Genet | 2021

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"Like Nietzsche, Genet believed in the "transvaluation of all values", by which bad is good and the ugly is beautiful. Whereas most writers treated homosexuality as a disease, Genet took the stronger position in linking it with evil and crime and sin. He invented the drag queen for literature in Divine in this novel."

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Emily Mortimer recommended Lectures on Russian Literature in Books (curated)

Lectures on Russian Literature

Vladimir Nabokov | 1982 | Fiction & Poetry

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"Nabokov’s essays on Russian literature are brilliantly funny and iconoclastic. He loves Gogol and hates Dostoyevsky and accuses him of being like the worst kind of sensationalist, journalistic hack. “Dostoyevsky is not a great writer, but a rather mediocre one—with flashes of excellent humor, but, alas, with wastelands of literary platitudes in between.”"

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