Novels that depict people struggling with the forces of nature, history or economics in settings from rural Argentina to Communist East Germany are among six finalists announced on Tuesday for the International Booker Prize for translated fiction.
The shortlist for the 50,000 pound (approximately RM300,081) award includes Argentine writer Selva Almada’s Not A River, a fishing story with troubling undercurrents; German author Jenny Erpenbeck’s Kairos, a doomed love story set in the final years of East Germany’s existence; and Brazilian writer Itamar Vieira Junior’s tale of subsistence farmers, Crooked Plow.
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