Independent Foreign Fiction Prize 2007
Explore the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize nominees—celebrating the best in translated fiction. Discover award-winning foreign books and acclaimed international authors from this prestigious literary competition.
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The Moldavian Pimp
by Edgardo Cozarinsky
Set in the Argentine capital and Paris, and ranging in time from the 1920s to beyond the turn of the century, this short novel is …
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My Father's Notebook
by Kader Abdolah
Aga Akbar, the youngest of seven children and the illegitimate son of a Persian nobleman, is a deaf-mute. He makes use of a rudimentary sign …
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The Book of Chameleons
by José Eduardo Agualusa
Felix Ventura is a man with an unusual occupation. If your lineage isn't sufficiently distinguished, he'll change that for you. If your family history isn't …
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I'll Steal You Away
by Niccolò Ammaniti
Ischiano Scalo. A place where even the main road out of town gives up after a couple of miles, where escape from a life of …
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The Old Child & Other Stories
by Jenny Erpenbeck
The Old Child & Other Stories introduces in English one of Germany's most original and brilliant young authors, Jenny Erpenbeck.
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Kiffe Kiffe Tomorrow
by Faïza Guène
Struggling with an overworked mother, an absent father, and the challenges of life within the infamous Paradise projects of suburban Paris, fifteen-year-old French Muslim Doria …
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The Successor
by Ismail Kadare
"This, Ismail Kadare's most recent novel, is a fictional inquiry into the still-unexplained death of Mehmet Shehu, the man who for decades was the designated …
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Stick Out Your Tongue
by Ma Jian
When this book was published in Chinese in 1997, the government accused Ma Jian of "harming the fraternal solidarity of the national minorities," and a …
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Your Face Tomorrow
by Javier Marías
Your Face Tomorrow, Javier Marias's dazzling unfolding magnum opus, is a novel in three parts, which began with Volume One: Fever and Spear. Described as …
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Wizard of the Crow
by Ngũgĩ wa Thiongơo
The individual stories of characters both powerful and ordinary create a kaleidoscopic portrait of postcolonial Africa in the twentieth century, in a novel set in …
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Havana Black
by Leonardo Padura
"The brutally mutilated body of Miguel Forcade is discovered washed up on a Havana beach. Head smashed in by a baseball bat, genitals cut off …
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A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
by Atiq Rahimi
"Set in Kabul just before the Soviet invasion of December 1979, this extraordinary book is both the story of a student in fear for his …
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Seeing
by José Saramago
Four years after a bizarre blindness plague hits the capital, the political arena is thrown into turmoil when election day is marked by an unprecedented …
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Shyness and Dignity
by Dag Solstad
"A meditative portrayal of one man's overwhelming inability to connect with contemporary society Elias Rukla begins yet another day under the leaden Oslo sky. At …
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Grace
by Linn Ullmann
A haunting meditation on the beauty of life in the face of human mortality follow's one man's search for meaning in the face of terminal …
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The Speed of Light
by Javier Cercas
A young would-be writer from Catalonia meets Vietnam veteran Rodney Falk at a Midwestern university in 1987, but it is only years later, after he …
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The Book About Blanche and Marie
by Per Olov Enquist
This novel is based on a true story of the remarkable relationship between the famous scientist, Marie Curie, and her assistant, Blanche Wittman.