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David Hebblethwaite
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Following @stuck_inabook's original, I'm going to do an #AtoZofBooks thread – a recommended book by an author for each letter of the alphabet. Here we go...
For A, a queue: THE QUEUE by Basma Abdel Aziz (tr. @lissiejaquette), that is. After an uprising, the people of a city have to stand in a giant queue for everything – until the queue itself becomes all. #AtoZofBooks shinynewbooks.co.uk/shiny-new-book…
For B, Andrés Barba's SUCH SMALL HANDS (tr. @lisa_dillman), the creepy and disorienting tale of a girl in an orphanage and the complex games of growing up. #AtoZofBooks davidsbookworld.com/2017/07/31/suc…
C has to be for Eleanor Catton. THE REHEARSAL is one of my very favourite books, a dizzying exploration of performance (in life and theatre), where the truth remains elusive. #AToZofBooks
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D goes to Helen DeWitt for LIGHTNING Rods, a sharp satire on corporate culture that traps its characters and readers in a sea of suffocating rhetoric, then shows the damage done. #AToZofBooks
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E is for book and author: THE END OF DAYS by Jenny Erpenbeck (tr. @translationista). A novel of the individual and history: the different lives that one woman might have led in the 20th century, and what those lives might have meant. #AToZofBooks
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F is for Agustín Fernández Mallo's NOCILLA trilogy (tr. @thom_bunn): a universe without centre, laid out in the form of three novels. #AToZofBooks
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Something less contemporary for G: LOVING by Henry Green: an oblique portrait of the web of relationships in a wartime country house. #AToZofBooks
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H is for Han Kang: HUMAN ACTS (tr. @londonkoreanist) is a harrowing account of the small actions that add up to an unfathomable brutal event, and the ultimate impossibility of coming to terms with that. #AToZofBooks
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My book for letter I is Kazuo Isjiguro's THE REMAINS OF THE DAY, the tale of a butler who embodies the tension between private and public life. #AtoZofBooks
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J is for @paulettejong's MILDEW (tr. by the author), which blurs the line between physical and imaginary space as mould grows over a woman's body on the day before her daughter's wedding. #AtoZofBooks
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My choice for K is @katiekitamura's THE LONGSHOT, the intensely focused story of an MMA fighter facing a make-or-break match. #AToZofBooks
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On to L: REDEMPTION IN INDIGO by @drkarenlord, which splices a Senegalese folktales with quantum physics to create a morality tale whose morals have not yet collapsed into certainty. #AtoZofBooks
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For M, it's RESERVOIR 13 by @jon_mcgregor, which braids together the threads of life in a village affected (or, in some ways, not) by a girl's disappearance. #AtoZofBooks
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A book for N: THE MINER by Natsume Sōseki (tr. Jay Rubin), in which the protagonist's time working in a mine becomes a literal and metaphorical journal through the underworld. #AToZofBooks
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O is for Helen Oyeyemi: MRS FOX takes a writer and his fictional muse through a series of stories featuring versions of themselves, as the muse finds her own voice. #AtoZofBooks
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My choice for P is Christopher Priest's THE Affirmation, in which versions of the same character in this world and another write metaphorical autobiographies each set in the other's world – and neither world can be taken as more real. #AtoZofBooks
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Back to my #AToZofBooks, and the letter Q. I'm choosing BERG by Ann Quin: "Carry On Experimentalism", as @MaxCairnduff put it so wonderfully.
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For R, it's GOOD MORNING, MIDNIGHT by Jean Rhys: the tale a woman's attempt to retreat from the past in Paris. #AtoZofBooks
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My book for S is FEVER DREAM by Samanta Schweblin: layers of reality build and dissolve as a woman tries to remember what happened to her. #AToZofBooks
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For T, my choice is THE TESTAMENT OF MARY by Colm Tóibín, a portrait of a mother-son relationship affected by sweeping social change. #AToZofBooks
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On to the letter U, and ANIMALS by @emjaneunsworth, a headlong rush of a novel about two women's friendship, and the relationship that may change everything. #AToZofBooks
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For V, THE ICE PALACE by Tarjei Vesaas (tr. Elizabeth Rokkan), a classic tale of childhood friendship forged and then lost. #AToZofBooks
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For W, I have MORVERN CALLAR by Alan Warner: an ordinary life made strange to outside observers. #AToZofBooks
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I don't have anything for an author beginning with X, so I'll have to bend the rules here and go with Bernard Atxaga's NEVADA DAYS (tr. Margaret Jull Costa), a thought-provoking account of the author's time in Reno. #AToZofBooks
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For Y, it's HOW TO LIVE SAFELY IN A SCIENCE FICTIONAL UNIVERSE by Charles Yu, a novel of time loops and relationships. #AToZofBooks
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Last one: Z is for @MeikeZiervogel's THE PHOTOGRAPHER, snapshots of a German family divided and then reunited in the 1940s. #AToZofBooks
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