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1 - Time Shelter: A Novel
Georgi Gospodinov
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An award-winning international sensation -- with a second-act dystopian twist -- Time Shelter is a tour de force set in a world clamoring for the past before it forgets."At one point they tried to calculate when time began, when exactly the earth had been created," begins Time... |
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3 - The Promise
Damon Galgut - Europa Editions
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A modern saga that could only have come from South Africa, written in gorgeous prose by the Booker Prize-shortlisted author Damon Galgut. Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately... |
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5 - Girl, Woman, Other
Bernardine Evaristo - Hamish Hamilton
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Teeming with life and crackling with energy - a love song to modern Britain, to black womanhood, to the ever-changing heart of LondonGirl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell the stories of their... |
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6 - Milkman: A Novel
Anna Burns - Faber & Faber
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Set in an un-named city but with an astonishing, breath-shorteningly palpable sense of time and place Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. The story of inaction with enormous consequences and decisions that are never made, but for which people are judged... |
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7 - Lincoln in the Bardo: A Novel
George Saunders - Random House
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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEThe "devastatingly moving" (People) first novel from the author of Tenth of December: a moving and original father-son story featuring none other than Abraham Lincoln,... |
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8 - The Sellout: A Novel
Paul Beatty - Farrar
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Winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award in FictionNamed one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times Book Review and the Wall Street JournalA biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme... |
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9 - The Vegetarian
Kang Han - Hogarth
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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE * "[Han] Kang viscerally explores the limits of what a human brain and body can endure, and the strange beauty that can be found in even the most extreme forms of renunciation." - Entertainment Weekly "Ferocious." - The New York... |
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10 - A Brief History of Seven Killings
Marlon James - HighBridge, a division of Recorded Books
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Winner, The Man Booker Prize, 2015On December 3, 1976, just before the Jamaican general election and two days before Bob Marley was to play the Smile Jamaica Concert, gunmen stormed his house, machine guns blazing. The attack nearly killed the Reggae superstar, his wife, and his manager,... |
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