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5 days ago
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International Booker prize goes to novel originally written in Mandarin Chinese for the first time

A Mandarin novel translated into English won the International Booker Prize, blending romance with postcolonial themes through a metafictional structure.
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'Taiwan Travelogue' wins the 2026 International Booker Prize

A translated Taiwanese travel memoir won the 2026 International Booker, blending romance, postcolonial insight, and a conflicted view of Japanese colonial history.
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7 months ago

'The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny' is a terrific, tangled love story

This is a novel of ideas, as well as, at its most elemental, a tangled love story. Desai's characters inhabit a complex post-modern, post-colonial world and, yet, her own sensibility as a novelist is playfully old-fashioned. Consider the contrivance Desai brazenly concocts to enable a central moment of this story: a chance meeting on an overnight train between the two title characters after they've each rejected their own families' formal attempts to arrange a marriage between them. Dickens, himself, might have blushed.
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