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The 2022 International Booker Prize

The winner of the 2022 International Booker Prize is TOMB OF SAND by Geetanjali Shree, translated from Hindi by Daisy Rockwell. This is the first book originally written in any Indian language to win the International Booker Prize, and the first novel translated from Hindi to be recognized by the award. Set in northern India, the novel follows the adventures of an 80-year-old woman who unexpectedly gains a new, and highly unconventional, lease on life.

Week of July 11, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of July 11th include GAME ON, the 28th installment in Janet Evanovich's wildly popular series featuring bounty hunter Stephanie Plum, who returns to hunt down a master cyber-criminal operating out of Trenton; THE PARTY CRASHER, Sophie Kinsella's humorous and heartwarming novel about family, set against the backdrop of the most fabulous party you’ve ever snuck into; Liv Constantine's THE STRANGER IN THE MIRROR, a diabolically twisty, psychologically unsettling novel about a woman with no recollection of her past; BATTLE FOR THE BIG TOP by Les Standiford, the untold story of three Golden Age titans and the confrontations, cutthroat business strategies and eccentric personalities that built the Ringling Bros., Barnum & Bailey Circus; and the paperback original THE EDGE OF SUMMER, a captivating summertime escape from Viola Shipman set along the sparkling shores of Lake Michigan, where a woman searches for clues to her secretive mother's past.

The 2023 International Booker Prize

The winner of the 2023 International Booker Prize is TIME SHELTER by Georgi Gospodinov, translated by Angela Rodel. This is the first novel originally published in Bulgarian to win the prize. In the book, a "clinic for the past" offers a promising treatment for Alzheimer’s sufferers: each floor reproduces a decade in minute detail, transporting patients back in time. But soon the past begins to invade the present.