Female authors lead International Booker Prize's 2020 shortlist

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Each of the shortlisted books restlessly reinvents received narratives, from foundational myths to family folklore. FMTNews FMTLifestyle InternationalBookerPrize

Six international writers have been shortlisted for the 2020 International Booker Prize, out of 124 submissions. © Image Courtesy of the International Booker Prize

“Each of our shortlisted books restlessly reinvents received narratives, from foundational myths to family folklore, plunging us into discomforting and elating encounters with selves in a state of transition. Kehlmann’s novel, translated by Ross Benjamin from German, follows the trickster Tyll Ulenspiegel as he travels across Europe during the Thirty Years’ War.

The novel is narrated by the ghost of Bahar, a 13-year-old girl whose family is compelled to flee their home in Tehran for a new life in a small village after the Islamic Revolution of 1979.

 

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