Long List für den Man Booker International Prize

    Long List für den Man Booker International Prize


    José Eduardo Agualusa (Angola) Daniel Hahn, A General Theory of Oblivion (Harvill Secker)


    Elena Ferrante (Italy) Ann Goldstein, The Story of the Lost Child (Europa Editions)


    Han Kang (South Korea) Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian (Portobello Books)


    Maylis de Kerangal (France) Jessica Moore, Mend the Living (Maclehose Press)
    Die Lebenden reparieren


    Eka Kurniawan (Indonesia) Labodalih Sembiring, Man Tiger (Verso Books)
    Tigermann (dt)


    Yan Lianke (China) Carlos Rojas, The Four Books (Chatto & Windus)


    Fiston Mwanza Mujila (Democratic Republic of Congo/Austria) Roland Glasser, Tram 83 (Jacaranda)


    Raduan Nassar (Brazil) Stefan Tobler, A Cup of Rage (Penguin Modern Classics)
    Ein Glas Wut (?)


    Marie N'Diaye (France) Jordan Stump, Ladivine (Maclehose Press)
    Ladivine (dt)


    Kenzaburo Oe (Japan) Deborah Boliner Boem, Death by Water (Atlantic Books)


    Aki Ollikainen (Finland) Emily Jeremiah & Fleur Jeremiah, White Hunger (Peirene Press)
    Das Hungerjahr


    Orhan Pamuk (Turkey) Ekin Oklap, A Strangeness in My Mind (Faber & Faber)
    Diese Fremdheit in mir


    Robert Seethaler (Austria) Charlotte Collins, A Whole Life (Picador)
    Ein ganzes Leben

    Gewonnen hat das Buch


    Han Kang (South Korea) Deborah Smith, The Vegetarian (Portobello Books)


    Zitat

    Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people. He is an office worker with moderate ambitions and mild manners; she is an uninspired but dutiful wife. The acceptable flatline of their marriage is interrupted when Yeong-hye, seeking a more ‘plant-like’ existence, commits a shocking act of subversion and becomes a vegetarian. As her rebellion manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, Yeong-hye spirals further and further into her fantasies of abandoning her fleshly prison and becoming – impossibly, ecstatically – a tree. Fraught, disturbing, and beautiful, The Vegetarian is a novel about modern South Korea, but also a novel about shame, desire, and our faltering attempts to understand others, from one imprisoned body to another.

    "Es gibt einen Fluch, der lautet: Mögest du in interessanten Zeiten leben!" [Echt zauberhaft - Terry Pratchett]