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I have a longstanding beef with literature which shies away from the truly dramatic, as if keeping the cameras rolling during the sex scene, the bank robbery or the car crash is the preserve of genre fiction.by the Argentinian author Agustina Bazterrica, translated by Sarah Moses takes a blood-spattered rotary saw to that prudish convention. It is set in a dystopian future where, after a plague which makes other animals dangerous for people to eat, some humans are bred for their meat.
If I had been asked – which I wasn’t – I would have given the International Booker prize to Ia Genberg for, in which we come to know the narrator, whom we never see directly, through vivid portraits of four people with whom she’s had deep and formative emotional relationships throughout her life. The translation from the Swedish by Kira Josefsson is so good that I kept underlining passages so I could reread them later.by Olga Ravn, translated from the Danish by Martin Aitken, for the third time.
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