Booker longlist 2024 Winstonsdads Thoughts on the list

• Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott
• Simpatía by Rodrigo Blanco Calderón, translated by Noel Hernández González and Daniel Hahn
• Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann
• The Details by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
• White Nights by Urszula Honek, translated by Kate Webster
• Mater 2-10 by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell and Youngjae Josephine Bae
• A Dictator Calls by Ismail Kadare, translated by John Hodgson
• The Silver Bone by Andrey Kurkov, translated by Boris Dralyuk
• What I’d Rather Not Think About by Jente Posthuma, translated by Sarah Timmer Harvey
• Lost on Me by Veronica Raimo, translated by Leah Janeczko
• The House on Via Gemito by Domenico Starnone, translated by Oonagh Stransky
• Crooked Plow by Itamar Vieira Junior, translated by Johnny Lorenz
• Undiscovered by Gabriela Wiener, translated by Julia Sanches

That is this year longlist from it I have read and reviewed two books, that is the worst showing I have had for many a year.

The two I have reviewed and Not a river and Karios 

That left eleven books to read .

Now I had two proofs of The silver Bone by Andrev Kurkov a crime novel set over 100 years ago. The house on Via Gemito is an italian epic that came out 20 years ago and follows one family with a man that isf he wasn’t a railway man and had a family he’d been a great painter. SAo  willbe making a start shortly on the 11 books ledft and trying to get them read before the shortlist is out.

Off the rest, Ill pick three that have caught my eye

White Nights- stories here are set in the Polish countryside, interlinking stories around a village, and death sounds just up my street.

Undiscovered-  This is written by a writer I have read before. I read Nine Moons by Gabriela Wiener, a work about her pregnancy. This is about a woman also named Gabriela confronting her owns family past a coloniser and colonised as she visit a art show. I loved her other book.

What I’d rather not think about  – What happens when one twin wants to take there own life and how will effect the other twin this sounds like an interesting insight into twins and how they feel and act similar sometimes.

I will review all the books I have ordered, including the others. This is a list of books I had heard of barring White Nights, which is out of the blue. As I said in our shadow chat, they are like a certain type of football player. They are in a winning team but aren’t the star or the Maverik. They are Gary Neville’s of the book world . He was the first name on an England manager list. Essential and an important cog in the team, but just there a player but not a huge star but won lots of caps, if that makes sense. I had seen most of the books. They were on the end-of-year list of books to watch for list. But they as the poll of prediction longlists barring a couple they were mentioned on a few prediction posts as for my post I didnn’t get a single book. That is what makes this a journey of discovery this time. Have you read many of the longlist ? what are yur thoughts. This is a rather quick post I had worked 12 hours today and wrote this when I got home?