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Blackouts

Justin Torres
- Granta Books
- 3 Août 2024
- 9781847083982
Juan Gay lies dying in a room in The Palace: a monumental, fading institution in the desert. There, a young man cares for him - someone whom Juan met only once, but who has haunted the edges of his life ever since.

As the end approaches, the two trade stories - resurrecting lost loves, mothers and fathers - and their lives are woven, ineluctably, into a broader story of sexuality, pathology and oppression. And, through their conversations, another story is told: that of the radical queer anthropologist Jan Gay, whose groundbreaking work was co-opted, and stifled, by the committee she served.

Blending fact with fiction, and drawing on oral histories and historical records, screenplay, testimony and image, Blackouts is a haunting, dreamlike rumination on memory and erasure - on the ways in which stories sustain histories.
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Birnam Wood

Eleanor Catton
- Granta Books
- 2 Mars 2023
- 9781783784257
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West

Carys Davies
- Granta Books
- 25 Avril 2019
- 9781783784233
SHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZE

'This short novel will live on in your imagination long after you read the last page' Claire Messud

When Cy Bellman, American settler and widowed father of ten-year-old Bess, reads in the newspaper that huge ancient bones have been discovered in a Kentucky swamp, he leaves his small Pennsylvania farm and daughter to find out if the rumours are true: that the giant monsters are still alive, and roam the uncharted wilderness beyond the Mississippi River.

West is the extraordinary story of a quest for a myth, of Bellman's journey into the unknown and of Bess, waiting at home for her father to return, facing monsters of her own. It is an eerie and timeless epic-in-miniature.

'One of the best books I've read this year... It's a book you can read in a day and that will resonate all year long in your head' Sunday Times

'Carys Davies is a deft, audacious visionary... Twisting the heart as few others can...' Tea Obreht, author of The Tiger's Wife
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The vegetarian

Kang Han
- Granta Books
- 5 Novembre 2015
- 9781846276033
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite' Eimear McBride

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. But in South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it is a shocking act of subversion.

Yeong-hye's passive rebellion rapidly manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism to attempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all the while she spirals further into her fantasies...

Disturbing and beautiful by turns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a tale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.
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THE WHITE BOOK

Han Kang
- Granta Books
- 17 Avril 2018
- 9781846276958
'A brilliant psychogeography of grief, moving as it does between place, history and memory... The White Book is a mysterious text, perhaps in part a secular prayer book' Deborah Levy, Guardian

SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

From the author of The Vegetarian and Human Acts comes a book like no other. The White Book is a meditation on colour, beginning with a list of white things. But it is also a book about mourning, and of rebirth and the tenacity of the human spirit. It is a stunning investigation of the fragility, beauty and strangeness of life from one of the great literary voices of our time.

'Wonderful. A quietly gripping contemplation on life, death and the existential impact of those who have gone before' Eimear McBride

'The White Book is a profound and precious thing... Han Kang is a genius' Lisa McInerney
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Stasiland

Anna Funder
- Granta Books
- 1 Septembre 2011
- 9781847083357
In 1989, the Berlin Wall fell; shortly afterwards the two Germanies reunited and East Germany ceased to exist. In this book, Anna Funder tells extraordinary tales from the underbelly of the former East Germany, including the story of Miriam, who as a 16-year-old might have started World War III.
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The vegetarian : Best of granta

Kang Han
- Granta Books
- 17 Août 2023
- 9781803510057
WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

'A strange, painfully tender exploration of the brutality of desire indulged and the fatality of desire ignored... Exquisite.' Eimear McBride

Yeong-hye and her husband are ordinary people - dutiful wife and mild-mannered office worker. One day, prompted by grotesque recurring nightmares, Yeong-hye decides to become a vegetarian. But in South Korea, where vegetarianism is almost unheard-of and societal mores are strictly obeyed, it is a shocking act of subversion.

Yeong-hye's passive rebellion rapidly manifests in ever more bizarre and frightening forms, from sexual sadism to attempted suicide, and in increasingly erotic and unhinged artworks, as all the while she spirals further into her fantasies...

Disturbing and beautiful by turns, The Vegetarian is a revelatory novel about modern day South Korea; a tale of shame, desire and our faltering attempts to understand others.
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Absurdistan

Gary Shteyngart
- Granta Books
- 7 Mai 2007
- 9781862079793
Misha is an American impounded in a Russian's body and the only place he feels at home is New York; he just wants to live in the South Bronx with his Latina girlfriend, but after his gangster father murders an Oklahoma businessman in Russia, all hopes of a US visa are lost.
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CONVENIENCE STORE WOMAN

Sayaka Murata
- Granta Books
- 2 Mai 2019
- 9781846276842
The surprise smash hit of the summer - Japan's answer to Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine.
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SUNNY PLACE FOR SHADY PEOPLE

Mariana Enriquez
- Granta Books
- 1 Octobre 2024
- 9781803511238
Mariana Enriquez's A Sunny Place for Shady People is her first story collection since the International Booker Prize-shortlisted The Dangers of Smoking in Bed. Featuring achingly human characters whose lives intertwine with ghosts, the occult and the macabre, the stories explore love, womanhood, LGBTQ counterculture, parenthood and Argentina's brutal past.
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THE UNFOLDING

A M Homes
- Granta Books
- 26 Août 2022
- 9781783789146
The Big Guy loves his family, money and democracy. Undone by the results of the 2008 Presidential election, he taps a group of like-minded men to reclaim their version of America. As they build a scheme to disturb and disrupt, the Big Guy also faces turbulence within his family and must take responsibility for his past actions. For his wife and daughter are having their own awakenings: self-denying Charlotte enters rehab, and eighteen year old Megan, who has voted for the first time, explores a political future that deviates from her father's ideology, while delving into deeply buried family secrets.

Dark, funny and prescient, The Unfolding explores the implosion of the dream and how we arrived in today's divided world.
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THE DANGERS OF SMOKING IN BED

Mariana Enriquez
- Granta Books
- 22 Janvier 2022
- 9781783788217
SHORTLISTED FOR THE INTERNATIONAL BOOKER PRIZE

'Beautiful, horrible... the most exciting discovery I've made in fiction for some time' Kazuo Ishiguro
'Smoky, carnal, dazzling' Lauren Groff

Welcome to Buenos Aires, a place of nightmares and twisted imaginings, where missing children come back from the dead and unearthed bones carry terrible curses.

Thrumming with murderous intentions, family betrayals and morbid desires, these stories shine a light on a violent city gripped by urban madness; giving voice to the lost, the oppressed and the forgotten. Lucid and darkly poetic, unsettling and otherworldly, these tales of revenge, witchcraft and fetishes are a masterpiece of contemporary Gothic and a bewitching exploration of the dark inclinations that threaten to lead us over the edge.

'I loved these twisted, lustful whispers in the dark' Daisy Johnson
'Queen of Latin American gothic' Financial Times
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THINGS WE LOST IN THE FIRE

Mariana Enriquez
- Granta Books
- 4 Octobre 2018
- 9781846276361
The debut collection from the acclaimed author of The Dangers of Smoking in Bed and Our Share of Night.

'An utterly brilliant measure of deep existential terror... You [will] return home looking pale and haunted' Observer

Sleep-deprived fathers conjuring phantoms; sharp-toothed children and stolen skulls; persecuted young women drawn to self-immolation. Organized crime sits side-by-side with the occult in Buenos Aires - a place where reality and the supernatural fuse into strange, new shapes.

These acclaimed gothic tales follow the wayward and downtrodden, revealing the scars of Argentina's dictatorship and the ghosts and traumas that have settled in the minds of its people. Provocative, brutal and uncanny, Things We Lost in the Fire is contemporary gothic at its darkest and best.

'The only book that's ever left me afraid to turn out the lights... mercilessly incisive and deeply creepy' Irish Times 'Books of the Year'

'These spookily clear-eyed, elementally intense stories are the business' Helen Oyeyemi
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Out of Place : a Memoir

Edward w. Said
- Granta Books
- 17 Août 2000
- 9781862073708
Edward Said experienced both British and American imperialism as the old Arab order crumbled in the late forties and early fifties. This account of his early life reveals the influences that have formed his books, "Orientalism" and "Culture and Imperialism".
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WATER MUSIC

T. C. Boyle
- Granta Books
- 1 Janvier 1998
- 9781862071551
Set in 1795, "Water Music" is the rambunctious account of two men's wild adventures through the gutters of London and the Scottish Highlands to their unlikely meeting in darkest Africa. Boyle's other works include "The Tortilla Curtain".
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Gay Bar : Why We Went Out

Jeremy Atherton Lin
- Granta Books
- 13 Janvier 2022
- 9781783785834
'A brilliantly written and incisive account of gay life' Colm Toibin

'Each page made me yearn for the dance floor... I'm so glad that someone has written this definitive book about gay bars' Amelia Abraham, author of Queer Intentions

Propulsive music and euphoric crowds; drag queens and go-go dancers; strobe lights, dark rooms and glory holes. Gay bars have long been sites of joy and solidarity, sexual expression and activism. But around the world, they are closing.

Atherton Lin draws from his experiences of clubs, pubs and dives in London, San Francisco and Los Angeles - and a transatlantic romance that began late one restless night - to trace queer histories.

An expansive and vivacious celebration of an institution, Gay Bar is also a stylish, intimate exploration of what these spaces mean, how they are changing and what we stand to lose when they close their doors.

'Essential' Vogue
'Expansive, exuberant and horny' Attitude
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THE TEN LOVES OF MR NISHINO

Hiromi Kawakami
- Granta Books
- 16 Mars 2020
- 9781846277016
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THE SISTERS BROTHERS

Patrick DeWitt
- Granta Books
- 15 Novembre 2011
- 9781847083197
Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, deWitt's dazzlingly original second novel is a darkly funny, offbeat western about a reluctant assassin and his murderous brother.
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The topeka school

Ben Lerner
- Granta Books
- 20 Septembre 2019
- 9781783785728
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Fracture

Andrés Neuman
- Granta Books
- 11 Juin 2020
- 9781783785131
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THE LUMINARIES

Eleanor Catton
- Granta Books
- 2 Mars 2023
- 9781783787265
WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZE

'A breathtakingly ambitious mystery ... as beautiful as it is triumphant' Daily Mail

An astonishing, epic story of promise, deceit and desperation in New Zealand's gold rush.

'What brings a fellow down here, you know, to the ends of the earth - what sparks a man?'

It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he stumbles across a tense gathering of twelve local men, who have met in secret to discuss a series of unsolved crimes. A wealthy man has vanished, a woman has tried to end her life, and an enormous fortune has been discovered in the home of a luckless drunk. Moody is soon drawn into the mystery: a network of fates and fortunes that is as complex and exquisitely patterned as the night sky.

The Luminaries is an extraordinary piece of fiction, both a ghost story and a gripping mystery. Set amidst the promise, deceit and desperation of the mid-19th century goldrush, the lives of its rich, complex cast unspool through a labyrinthine, celestial pattern. Fiendishly clever and vividly rendered, The Luminaries established Catton as one of the brightest stars in the firmament.

'A book to curl up with and devour, intricately plotted and extravagantly described, a pastiche of the Victorian sensation novel in the same smart yet playful vein as Sarah Waters' Guardian
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UNDERMAJORDOMO MINOR

Patrick DeWitt
- Granta Books
- 15 Juin 2016
- 9781847088727
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Londoners: the days and nights of london now - as told by those who love it, hate it, live it, left it, long for it

Craig Taylor
- Granta Books
- 5 Juillet 2012
- 9781847083296
An extraordinary group portrait of London today: a book as rich, dynamic, lively, and diverse as the city itself.
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OURS

Phillip B. Williams
- Granta Books
- 13 Février 2025
- 9781803510781
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