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Pretty good weekend book haul!
Hooray! I finished a book!
This is my surprise pick of the #bookerinternational2020 longlist. A big, bloody, ugly South African frontier story based on the man-legend-rebel-scoundrel Coenraad de Buys. I wouldn‘t have normally given this a second glance, but I loved it!
The language is rich, playful, evocative (for good or bad). There‘s a joy in the translation. And if you use the same insult twice, you‘re just not trying. 👇
Hm. This is a surprise. Next up for #BookerInternational2020 and I kind of expected to dislike it intensely. So far (which isn‘t actually very far, so there‘s still time) though, I‘m loving it!