![]() ![]() I Live in the Slums by Can Xue, translated from Chinese by Karen Gernant and Chen Zeping.Here's the full longlist for the 2021 International Booker Prize: We hope this prize will inspire many more readers to follow us.” Thanks to those remarkable books, and to their translators, we’ve been freed to explore the world. We’ve read books that were like biographies, like myths, like essays, like meditations, like works of history – each one transformed into a work of fiction by the creative energy of the author’s imagination. “Authors cross borders, and so do books, refusing to stay put in rigidly separated categories. However a theme does emerge – migration, the pain of it, but also the fruitful interconnectedness of the modern world,” says judge Lucy Hughes-Hallett. “In a year when we could scarcely leave our own houses, we judges have been crossing continents, transported by our reading. The second is in the present, when a woman looks into this "minor" crime. ![]() The novel is set in two time periods: the first is the summer of 1949, when Israeli soldiers murder an encampment of Bedouin in the Negev desert, including a teenage girl, who is raped, killed and buried in the sands. ![]()
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