Grant Rintoul Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

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My first #GermanLitMonth review, and one of best novels I've read this year - Wolfgang Koeppen's Pigeons on the Grass (translated by Michael Hofmann): https://1streading.wordpress.com/2021/11/03/pigeons-on-the-grass/

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The many stories of one man's love for the son he never knew - Bachtyar Ali's The Last Pomegranate Tree (translated by Kareem Abdulrahman): https://t.co/kxY2TnzDzX @archipelagobks

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Veronique Olmi's novel of radical social change in the France of the seventies, Daughters Beyond Command (translated by Alison Anderson): https://t.co/7GOT5GC8Co @EuropaEdUK

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Next in my Booker International Prize reading, a heart-rending love story from India, Perumal Murugan's Pyre (translated by Aniruddhan Vasudevan) from @PushkinPress: https://t.co/rvLdUAiqLv

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My first new review for the International Booker Prize - Vigdis Hjorth's Is Mother Dead (translated by Charlotte Barslund): https://t.co/oPKwSkPCi3

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The second in an occasional series of re-reading books I first read 30 years ago, Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions: https://t.co/3jt7qk0oZD

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Probably one of the favourites for the International Booker - Georgi Gospodinov's Time Shelter (translated by Angela Rodel): https://t.co/KYXCOWnVY5 @wnbooks @TheBookerPrizes

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Juan Pablo Villalobos' novel of immigration and alien invasion, Invasion of the Spirit People (translated by Rosalind Harvey): https://t.co/opDmODvGwe @andothertweets

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Long-listed for the @PENamerica Translation Prize, Evelio Rosero's Tono the Infallible (translated by Victor Meadowcroft and Anne McLean): https://t.co/p5FG1LjJzP @NewDirections

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Access to Annie Ernaux's back catalogue increases with Alison Strayer's translation of 2014's Look at the Lights, My Love: https://t.co/E4pvM75P2s