New Awarded Books - World Literary Awards

2019-03-05 Graywolf

Deaf Republic

Ilya Kaminsky

A poetry collection set in an occupied town where silence becomes a form of resistance after a boy is killed.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

2019-03-05 Ballantine Books

DAISY JONES & THE SIX

TAYLOR JENKINS REID

An oral-history style novel that traces the rise, tensions, and breakup of a fictional rock band.

Goodreads Choice Awards

2019-03-05 Thomas Dunne Books

When All Is Said

Anne Griffin

Set in the bar of an Irish hotel, the novel follows 84-year-old Maurice as he toasts five people who shaped his life and looks back on the memories that remain.

Irish Book Awards

2019-02-26 Doubleday

SAY NOTHING

PATRICK RADDEN KEEFE

Beginning with the 1972 abduction and murder of Jean McConville in Belfast, this nonfiction book investigates memory, silence, and the afterlives of political violence in Northern Ireland.

Orwell Prize

2019-02-23 KADOKAWA

墓場の少年ノーボディ・オーエンズの奇妙な生活 (角川文庫)

ニール・ゲイマン, 金原瑞人

A fantastical coming-of-age story in which a baby who loses his family is raised by ghosts in a graveyard and later faces danger in the world beyond.

Carnegie Medal for Writing

2019-02-19 Yale University Press

They Were Her Property: White Women as Slave Owners in the American South

Stephanie E. Jones-Rogers

A research-driven history book that reexamines white women's role in slaveholding in the American South.

Los Angeles Times Book Prize

2019-02-12 Knopf

LOST CHILDREN ARCHIVE

VALERIA LUISELLI

家族のアメリカ横断旅行を軸に、子ども移民の危機や記録の倫理を重層的に描く実験的小説。断片的な語り、ドキュメンタリー的挿入、個人的な回想が交錯し、物語と歴史の関係を問いかける。

International Dublin Literary Award

2019-02-12 Farrar Straus & Giroux

Death Is Hard Work follows three siblings trying to carry their father’s body to his village for burial during the Syrian civil war. A short journey is stretched by checkpoints, violence, and family memory, revealing a world where even burying the dead has become difficult.

National Book Award for Translated Literature

2019-02-07 Gallimard

Dans les forets de Siberie. Fevrier-Juillet 2010

Sylvain Tesson

A reflective record of six months spent in a cabin in the Siberian taiga. The book turns solitude, survival, and close observation of nature into a calm memoir.

Prix Médicis