Safe Return Doubtful

It’s that time of year again.. well, at least I’m excited about it.

The announcement of the Longlist for the International Booker Prize, which will be made next Tuesday, 24th February. 

I’ve read almost fifty novels that will qualify. For the last few years I have enjoyed naming my favourites just before the announcement, though very few of them have actually made the list. 

There’s usually 13 on the list, so here we go again.. 

(I’ve reviewed them all.. most will be in the archive here, and if not, on my GoodReads)

<b>I Gave You Eyes and You Looked Towards Darkness by Irene Solà</b> – Catalonia – translator Mara Faye Lethem 

<b>You Glow In The Dark by Liliana Colanzi</b> – Bolivia – translator Chris Andrews 

<b>On Earth As It Is Beneath by Ana Paula Maia</b> – Brazil – translated by Padman Viswanathan 

<b>An Infinite Sadness by Antônio Xerxenesky</b> – Brazil – translated by Daniel Hahn

<b>The Wax Child by Olga Ravn</b> – Denmark – translated by Martin Aitken 

<b>Come Down To A Lower Place by Seoyoung Yi</b> – SouthKorea – translated by Janet Hong 

<b>Pedro the Vast by Simón López Trujillo</b> – Chile – translated by Robin Myers 

<b>The Hole by Hye-Young Pyun</b> – South Korea – translated by Sora Kim-Russell

<b>Four By Four by Sara Mesa</b> –  Spain – translated by Katie Whitmore 

<b>The Director by Daniel Kehlmann</b> – Austria – translated by Ross Benjamin 

<b>The Deserters by Mathias Énard</b> –  France – translated by  Charlotte Mandell 

<b>On The Calculation Of Volume III by Solvej Balle</b> –  Denmark – translated by Jennifer Russell and Sophia Hersi Smith 

<b>The Place of Shells by Mai Ishizawa</b> – Japan – translated by Polly Barton