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International Dublin Literary Award こくさいだぶりんぶんがくしょう

Edition 2 (1997)

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Winners

2 people
Javier Marías Franco はびえる まりあす Winner

An introspective novel in which the narrator traces his marriage and his father's past, showing how silence and secrecy shape family ties. Past and present, speech and silence, echo one another until the shape of the truth slowly emerges.

Using a marriage and a father's past as its starting point, the novel slowly brings a buried truth into view.

278 pages
marriagesecrecymemorylanguage and silencefamily
Margaret Jull Costa まーがれっと じゅる こすた Winner

An introspective novel in which the narrator traces his marriage and his father's past, showing how silence and secrecy shape family ties. Past and present, speech and silence, echo one another until the shape of the truth slowly emerges.

Using a marriage and a father's past as its starting point, the novel slowly brings a buried truth into view.

278 pages
marriagesecrecymemorylanguage and silencefamily