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Edition 29 (2024)

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Winners

2 people
Mircea Cărtărescu みるちゃ かーとれすく Winner

A schoolteacher-narrator in suburban Bucharest moves through everyday frustration, dreams, philosophy, history, and mathematics in a novel that keeps pushing at the boundaries of reality. Against the pressure of communist Romania, it explores escape and the power of literature on a vast scale.

A novel that begins in an ordinary day and keeps searching for a way out beyond the world.

640 pages
autobiographical fictiondreamsphilosophycommunist Romaniareality and fantasy
Sean Cotter しょーん こったー Winner

A schoolteacher-narrator in suburban Bucharest moves through everyday frustration, dreams, philosophy, history, and mathematics in a novel that keeps pushing at the boundaries of reality. Against the pressure of communist Romania, it explores escape and the power of literature on a vast scale.

A novel that begins in an ordinary day and keeps searching for a way out beyond the world.

640 pages
autobiographical fictiondreamsphilosophycommunist Romaniareality and fantasy