Well the proper IFFP shortrlist came out today from Booktrust .Their choices are –
By night the mountain burns by Juan Tomas Avila Laurel
Translator Jethro Soutar
Colorless Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami
Translator Philip Gabriel
F by Daniel Kehlmann
Translator – Carol Brown Janeway
The end of days by Jenny Erpenbeck
Translator Susan Bernofsky
In the beginning was the sea by Tomas Gonzalez
Translator – Frank Wynne
While the gods where sleeping by Ervin Mortier
Translator – Paul vincent .
Now it has become tradition for the shadow jury to decide there own shortlist from the longlist and this year it is the longlist plus one .I’ve fallen behind in reviews have read all but two of the longlist and was fairly happy with our shortlist .
Shadow shortlist
As always, the IFFP long and shortlist usually comes up with book titles that I know very little of but know that it would be of great reading. I look forward to see what the shadow jury favourite book is!
The only one I have read is: Colorless Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage.
Hope you decide to try a few some interesting books on both lists
Have read the Murakami, but it’s the dead lake that appeals
I think you’d live dead lake Gary the fable like nature be just up your street
LOL Stu, I’m trying to put these lists on Listopia at GoodReads but I can’t keep up with it all!
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Thanks Stu. I will be adding some of the books from your Shadow List to my reading lists. I’m so behind on reading Murakami, would like to catch up.
I liked this murakami more than the 1q84 myself