Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects some of his best international mid-year reads

A family is caught in a political sea of deception in this dystopian novella by Hong Kong author Dorothy Tse

At the heart of Yáng Shuāng-zǐ’s rich, heady book is the uneasy bond between a Japanese author and her Taiwanese interpreter

Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his must-read titles

The second novel by the New York-based Cuban writer deals with issues of exile and dissidence through the eyes of several émigrés

Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his best mid-year reads

The Mexican author’s disturbing short stories subvert the comforting conventions of family life

Alejandro Zambra explores the ups and downs of fatherhood in this collection of essays, poems and stories

A mother-and-son road trip is propelled by guilt and unease in Christian Kracht’s hilariously unsettling novel

Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his must-read titles

Ángel Gurría-Quintana selects his best mid-year reads Not a River by Selva Almada, translated by Annie McDermott (Charco Press) Shortlisted for the 2024 International Booker Prize, Almada’s unsettling novel follows three men on a fishing trip,…

Social ills and unrest in modern-day Chile play out in a tense and tragic story of a put-upon domestic worker In her critically acclaimed non-fiction work When Women Kill (2022) Chilean writer Alia Trabucco Zerán investigated real-life murders…

Based on the author’s own family history, this continent-hopping novel chronicles the relentless march of time and the people swept up by it Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. The American…

In his latest volume of auto-fiction, the French literary sensation narrates a ruthless quest to disown his working-class roots A decade ago, The End of Eddy took France’s literary scene by storm. The harrowing account of a working-class childhood in…

Álvaro Enrigue revisits Spain’s conquest of Mexico through the eyes of Cortés, the conquistadors and the vanquished natives Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Like the fall of Constantinople in…

The Living and the Rest by José Eduardo Agualusa, translated by Daniel Hahn (MacLehose) A group of writers attending a literary festival on the Island of Mozambique find themselves stranded when a cyclone cuts them off from the mainland. Unable to…

Deep in the backlands of Brazil’s north-east, Bibiana and Belonísia, young daughters of indentured farmworkers, make an astonishing discovery: in a suitcase hidden beneath their grandmother’s bed is an old, mysterious knife. Entranced by the glint of…

The Drinker of Horizons by Mia Couto, translated by David Brookshaw (World Editions/Farrar Straus and Giroux) Couto’s “Sands of the Emperor” trilogy, an epic account of Portugal’s rapaciousness in Mozambique, comes to an end as its protagonists —…