International Booker Prize 2024: Six expert reviews of the shortlisted books
for the 2024 International Booker Prize. Academics review the finalists ahead of the announcement of the winner on 21 May., the final instalment in Selva Almada's"trilogy of men", past and present collide in a nightmarish sleepwalk towards inevitable violence. Two men take Tilo, the son of their friend Eusebio, on a fishing trip along the very river where Eusebio lost his life some years earlier. They row to"the island", a closed community that does not trust outsiders.
We know the novel's protagonist as Two because she is the younger of twins, and her older brother as One. Two's grief following her brother's suicide causes her to reflect on their relationship through a series of fragmented thoughts, across which recurring images surface: The Twin Towers, the reality TV show Survivor and the Nazi doctor Josef Mengele.
The book is set in the last years of the German Democratic Republic as western capitalism erodes a collapsing socialism. Against this context, two lovers, the ageing writer Hans and the late teenage Katharina, live out a doomed affair, having met on a bus one rainy evening.
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