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Rafi Zabor
The Bear Comes Home is an unusual novel with a saxophone-playing bear as its protagonist. It blends a love of jazz and art with questions of self-formation and the boundary between wildness and civilization in a humorous, philosophical voice.
Luigi Pirandello
Through six characters who appear onstage in search of an author, the play unsettles the line between reality and fiction, and between role and self. The action itself becomes a device for asking what theater is.
Fernando Schwartz
Fernando Schwartz’s El desencuentro won the prize. It follows a woman’s life through marriage, family, and the frictions of memory and expectation.
デーヴァ ソベル, 藤井 留美
A science-history nonfiction book about the longitude problem of the eighteenth century and the persistence of clockmaker John Harrison. It presents the breakthrough in marine timekeeping as both a technological achievement and a human story.
Thomas Lynch
An essay collection about funeral work and death. It probes the meaning of life and mortality through close observations of the funeral trade as a profession.
Alan Duff
As a sequel to Once Were Warriors, the novel follows Jake as he faces family ties and the memory of violence while inching toward a more responsible life. It looks at tension and renewal in Maori community life with a hard-edged but compassionate eye.
Philip Roth
The seemingly ideal American family of Seymour “Swede” Levov is shattered by political violence and personal collapse in the 1960s.
Derrick Bell
A study of Black religious and cultural life that treats gospel music as a strategy of survival.
Don Paterson
A poetry collection on love and domestic life, rendered through wit, craft, and intimate observation.
Stephen Baxter
A collection of short and mid-length pieces tied to the Xeelee sequence, it treats civilization, time, and vacuum against a cosmological backdrop. Scientific speculation drives an expansive perspective.
David Wisniewski
A solemn retelling set in sixteenth-century Prague, where a clay giant is created to protect a Jewish community.
Alice Thompson
The tale of a man's obsession with a woman, or is it two women? Justine has a twin sister, and the narrator is increasingly unsure as to the real identity of the woman he desires. Alluding to the Marquis de Sade's work of the same name, the novel explores the line between imagination and reality.