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The Vegetarian - Winner Of The 2024 Nobel Prize In Literature

by Han Kang

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 FROM HAN KANG, WINNER OF THE 2024 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE “[Han Kang’s] intense poetic prose . . . exposes the fragility of human life.”—The Nobel Committee for Literature, in the citation for the Nobel Prize A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE ONE OF THE NEW YORK TIMES’S 100 BEST BOOKS OF THE 21ST CENTURY “Ferocious.”—The New York Times Book Review (Ten Best Books of the Year) “Both terrifying and terrific.”—Lauren Groff “Provocative [and] shocking.”—The Washington Post Before the nightmares began, Yeong-hye and her husband lived an ordinary, controlled life. But the dreams—invasive images of blood and brutality—torture her, driving Yeong-hye to purge her mind and renounce eating meat altogether. It’s a small act of independence, but it interrupts her marriage and sets into motion an increasingly grotesque chain of events at home. As her husband, her brother-in-law and sister each fight to reassert their control, Yeong-hye obsessively defends the choice that’s become sacred to her. Soon their attempts turn desperate, subjecting first her mind, and then her body, to ever more intrusive and perverse violations, sending Yeong-hye spiraling into a dangerous, bizarre estrangement, not only from those closest to her, but also from herself. Celebrated by critics around the world, The Vegetarian is a darkly allegorical, Kafka-esque tale of power, obsession, and one woman’s struggle to break free from the violence both without and within her. A Best Book of the Year: BuzzFeed, Entertainment Weekly, Wall Street Journal, Time, Elle, The Economist, HuffPost, Slate, Bustle, The St. Louis Dispatch, Electric Literature, Publishers Weekly

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Train Dreams

by Denis Johnson

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 'A masterpiece... one of the best prose writers in our time' Michael Ondaatje An epic miniature of one man's life journey through the American West at the turn of the twentieth century. Robert Grainier is a day labourer in the American West, felling the trees that feed the railways. It is the start of the twentieth century, and the world is changing at a rapid pace. Life is fragile in the wilds of the frontier; disease and forest fires are rife. Buffeted by the loss of his family, Grainier journeys, struggling to make sense of the bewildering changes transforming the nation. Rich and muscular, sweeping and incantatory, Train Dreams is an epic in miniature: an elegy to the ravaged beauty of a lost landscape, and a haunting indictment of the cost of our modern way of life. 'A work of extraordinary power and consummate skill... A masterpiece' Observer 'I don't think there is a sentence in the book that isn't perfectly made' Ann Patchett, New York Times
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Convenience Store Woman

by Sayaka Murata

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 'A gem of a book. Quirky, deadpan, poignant and quietly profound' Ruth Ozeki The unexpected international bestseller. Meet Keiko. She's 36 years old, has never had a boyfriend, and she's been working in the same supermarket for eighteen years. Keiko's family wishes she'd get a proper job. Her friends wonder why she won't get married. But Keiko knows what makes her happy, and she's not going to let anyone come between her and her convenience store... A cult hit around the world, Convenience Store Woman is both a feminist rallying cry and a must-read oddball comedy. 'Exhilaratingly weird and funny... Unsettling and totally unpredictable - my copy is now heavily underlined' Sally Rooney 'Darkly comic' Observer '[A] short, deadpan gem... A true original' Daily Mail 'What a weird and wonderful and deeply satisfying book this is. Sayaka Murata is an utterly unique and revolutionary voice. I tore through it with great delight' Jami Attenberg
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Dept. Of Speculation

by Jenny (Y) Offill e Jenny Offill

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 Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: critically acclaimed and widely adored, Dept. of Speculation is an electrifying, funny and wise account of a couple falling out of one another's orbit.
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Leaving The Atocha Station

by Ben Lerner

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 Adam Gordon is a brilliant, if highly unreliable, young American poet on a prestigious fellowship in Madrid, struggling to establish his sense of self and his attitude towards art. Fuelled by strong coffee and self-prescribed tranquillizers, Adam's 'research' soon becomes a meditation on the possibility of authenticity, as he finds himself increasingly troubled by the uncrossable distance between himself and the world around him. It's not just his imperfect grasp of Spanish, but the underlying suspicion that his relationships, his reactions, and his entire personality are just as fraudulent as his poetry. In prose that veers between the comic and tragic, the self-contemptuous and the inspired, Leaving the Atocha Station is a dazzling introduction to one of the smartest, funniest and most audacious writers of his generation.
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Straw Dogs - Thoughts On Humans And Other Animals

by John Gray

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 Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: an exciting, radical work of philosophy that challenges our most cherished assumptions about what it means to be human
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The Wild Places

by Robert Macfarlane

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 New in the Best of Granta series: the classic bestseller of British nature writing, Robert Macfarlane's debut.
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Negroland - A Memoir

by Margo Jefferson

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 INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: a deeply felt meditation on race, sex, class and American culture by a Pulitzer-prize winning critic.
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Ghost Wall

by Sarah Moss

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 INCLUDED IN THE BEST OF GRANTA SERIES: a powerful and chilling novel of haunted landscapes, rites of the past and a teenage girl in danger
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Strange Weather In Tokyo

by Hiromi (Y) Kawakami

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 Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: a new edition of the bestselling Japanese novel, by the Akutagawa Prize-winning author
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Somewhere Towards The End

by Diana (Y) Athill

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 Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: the Costa-award winning memoir on what it means to grow old.
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The Sisters Brothers

by Patrick Dewitt

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 Included in the BEST OF GRANTA series: deWitt's dazzlingly original novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.
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The Glutton

by A. K. Blakemore

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 One man with an insatiable hunger: a novel of desire and destruction in Revolutionary France, based on a true story, from the Desmond Elliott Prize-winning author of The Manningtree Witches.
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A Thread Of Violence

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 A Story of Truth, Invention and Murder.
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Men Explain Things To Me - And Other Essays

by Rebecca Solnit

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 Rebecca Solnit’s essay ‘Men Explain Things to Me’ has become a touchstone of the feminist movement, inspired the term ‘mansplaining’, and established Solnit as one of the leading feminist thinkers of our time – one who has inspired everyone from radical activists to Beyoncé Knowles. Collected here in print for the first time is the essay itself, along with the best of Solnit’s feminist writings. From rape culture to mansplaining, from French sex scandals to marriage and the nuclear family, from Virginia Woolf to colonialism, these essays are a fierce and incisive exploration of the issues that a patriarchal culture will not necessarily acknowledge as ‘issues’ at all. With grace and energy, and in the most exquisite and inviting of prose, Rebecca Solnit proves herself a vital leading figure of the feminist movement and a radical, humane thinker.
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May We Be Forgiven

by A. M. Homes

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 Included in the BEST OF GRANTA launch list for 2023: an iconic satire of contemporary America and WINNER OF THE WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION 2013, in which a momentary loss of control catapults two vying brothers into new lives, wherein loyalties are tested and families crumble.
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Though The Bodies Fall

by Noel O'Regan

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 From an exciting new voice in Irish fiction, a powerful novel set on an Irish clifftop - a story about duty, despair and the chance encounters upon which fate turns
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Nothing To Envy - Real Lives In North Korea

by Barbara (Y) Demick

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Stasiland - Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall

by Anna Funder

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 WINNER OF THE SAMUEL JOHNSON PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 'A heartbreaking, beautifully written book. A classic for sure' Claire Tomalin, Guardian Extraordinary true stories of those who lived in East Germany. Travel through the remains of East Germany with Anna Funder as she meets the people who lived in the GDR before the fall of the wall. There is Miriam, condemned as an enemy of the state at sixteen. She hears the heartbreaking story of Frau Paul, who was separated from her young baby by the Berlin Wall. And she gets drunk with the legendary 'Mik Jegger' of the East, a man once declared by the authorities - to his face - to no longer exist. Then she meets the Stasi themselves - men and women who spied on their families and friends - people who, despite everything, are still loyal to the vanished regime and who long for the return of Communism. Stasiland is a gripping portrait of the horror and the absurdities of state oppression. In a world of total surveillance, its celebration of resilience and resistance is as potent as ever. 'A brilliant and necessary book about oppression and history ... Here is someone who knows how to tell the truth' Rachel Cusk 'Superb... Funder skillfully deploys fictional techniques to make the material jump off the page... Vividly conveyed [with] flashes of humour too' Independent on Sunday
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Hawthorn And Child

by Keith Ridgway

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Out Of Place - A Memoir

by Edward W. Said

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The Possessed - Adventures With Russian Books And The People Who Read Them

by Elif Batuman

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 Roaming from Tashkent to San Francisco, this is the true story of one budding writer’s strange encounters with the fanatics who are devoted – absurdly! melancholically! ecstatically! – to the Russian classics. Combining fresh readings of the great Russians from Gogol to Goncharov with the sad and funny stories of the lives they continue to influence, The Possessed introduces a brilliant and distinctive new voice: comic, humane, charming, poignant and completely, and unpretentiously, full of an infectious love for literature.
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The View From The Ground

by Martha Gellhorn

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In An Antique Land

by Amitav Ghosh

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