Books by Anne McLean
“You have to be willing to walk with Vila-Matas as if he’s some kind of intoxicated tour guide of a city that doesn’t even entirely exist. It’s wonderful. Like all the books suggested here, the drama comes in the turns of thought. If that sounds boring to you, it probably will be boring to you.” Read more...
The Best Counterfactual Novels
Catherine Lacey, Novelist
The Shape of the Ruins
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean
“Hugely ambitious: 500-odd pages, but my goodness, it rattled along. it’s one of those books that really pounds your mind with every sentence. There’s beautiful rhythmic prose and it really unpacks how we unpack evidence about the story of the world.” Read more...
The Best Novels in Translation: the 2019 Booker International Prize
Bettany Hughes, Broadcaster
Interviews where books by Anne McLean were recommended
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Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones -
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Celestial Bodies
by Jokha Alharthi, translated by Marilyn Booth -
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The Years
by Annie Ernaux & translator - Alison Strayer -
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The Pine Islands
by Jen Calleja & Marion Poschmann -
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The Shape of the Ruins
by Juan Gabriel Vásquez, translated by Anne McLean -
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The Remainder
by Alia Trabucco Zerán & Sophie Hughes (translator)
The Best Novels in Translation: the 2019 Booker International Prize, recommended by Bettany Hughes
The Best Novels in Translation: the 2019 Booker International Prize, recommended by Bettany Hughes
Bettany Hughes, author of Istanbul: A Tale of Three Cities and chair of this year’s Booker International Prize judging panel, talks us through the six books they have shortlisted for the title of best novel in translation.
The Best Counterfactual Novels, recommended by Catherine Lacey
Novelists often make the decision to create alternate realities—worlds that are very like, but not quite identical, to our own. Catherine Lacey, the acclaimed novelist whose latest book Biography of X is set in a United States in which the Southern states seceded during the 20th century, talks us through the process of plotting counterfactual timelines and recommends five books that explore the slippery relation between truth, reality, and fiction.
