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Small Boat (2023) is a novel that fictionalizes a real 2021 migrant boat tragedy in the English Channel and explores themes of morality, guilt, and responsibility, told largely through the perspective of a French coastguard radio operator involved in the incident.
Vincent Delecroix is a French philosopher and novelist known for his novel "Small Boat" (originally titled "Naufrage"), which fictionalizes a real 2021 migrant boat tragedy in the English Channel, exploring themes of morality, guilt, and human responsibility through the perspective of the French coastguard radio operator who failed to send timely help.
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The Bee Sting (2023) is a novel by Irish writer Paul Murray that depicts the dysfunctional lives of the Barnes family in post-recession Ireland, focusing on their struggles with financial decline and personal challenges. The book was shortlisted for the 2023 Booker Prize and won several awards including the An Post Irish Book of the Year and the Nero Book Award for Fiction.
Paul Murray is an Irish novelist born in 1975 in Dublin, known for his comic fiction novels including "An Evening of Long Goodbyes," "Skippy Dies," "The Mark and the Void," and "The Bee Sting".
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Trust (2022) is a layered and intricately structured novel that explores themes of wealth, power, and truth through multiple interwoven narratives spanning the early 20th century American financial elite. The book challenges readers to consider how stories about money and influence are constructed and who controls these narratives, blending historical fiction with metafictional elements to examine the elusiveness of trust and reality.
Hernan Diaz is an Argentine-American writer born in 1973, known for his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Trust" (2023) and his debut novel "In the Distance" (2017), with a literary career marked by explorations of history, capitalism, and identity, and academic credentials including a PhD from New York University.
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Pachinko (2017) is an epic historical novel that follows the life of Sunja, a Korean woman who, after becoming pregnant by a wealthy fish broker who cannot marry her, accepts a marriage proposal from a kind but sickly minister and moves to Japan. The story spans several generations, exploring the hardships and resilience of Korean immigrants facing prejudice and poverty in Japan, while weaving themes of love, sacrifice, ambition, and loyalty against significant historical backdrops like Japanese occupation and World War II.
Min Jin Lee is a Korean-American novelist and writer best known for her critically acclaimed works such as Pachinko, which explore themes of identity, family, diaspora, and the Korean immigrant experience.
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (2009) is a darkly humorous and atmospheric mystery novel that follows an eccentric, reclusive woman living in a remote Polish village who becomes entwined in a series of suspicious deaths linked to animal rights and environmental themes. The story blends elements of crime, philosophy, and folklore, challenging readers to question morality, justice, and humanity’s relationship with nature.
Olga Tokarczuk is a Polish writer who won the 2018 Nobel Prize in Literature for her narrative imagination that explores the crossing of boundaries as a form of life.
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