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Ukraine and the future of war; the giants of Jewish-American banking; a newly translated novel that took a daring swipe at Stalinism; a history of British attitudes to food; a Kafkaesque satire on the shackles of work; inside LIV Golf — plus a round-up of new audiobooks and Nilanjana Roy on the ‘gilded age’
Long banned and now newly translated, the Soviet writer’s picaresque novel takes aim at the brutality of collectivisation
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Hiroko Oyamada’s short, powerful debut novel poses vital questions about life and the futility of corporate jobs
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Set in her native land, Liliana Corobca’s novel uses a child’s perspective to paint a vivid picture of cruelty and poverty
The author on how his dystopian vision of Ireland ‘Prophet Song’ holds warnings for us all
A terrible crime forms the backdrop for an exploration of French class anxiety in a strange, magnificent novel
This first English-language edition captures a postwar society caught between idealised past and traumatised present
Judges hail dystopian portrait of an imagined Ireland descending into totalitarianism
The award-winning author evokes a world of chaos and instability, with a multi-dimensional protagonist at its centre
A mystery narrative meets a chronicle of criminality with a cast of characters living in the now gentrified New York borough
Action-packed stories from Russia to Nigeria — plus a new Nurse Ratched and the latest from former astronaut Chris Hadfield
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Books by FT writers
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The Canadian novelist’s complex, time-travelling new novel explores trauma, loss and the lasting impact of love
Justin Torres presents a rich plot that centres around a friendship with a dying man
Anne Eekhout’s novel reimagines how Mary Shelley’s most famous novel was brought to life, with intriguing results
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