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Very happy about my haul of second-hand books:
The Pear Field (tagged)
Papa, maman écoutez-moi vraiment (parenting/child psychology)
Austral (Costarican author)
Le héro qui pissait dans son froc (Vietnamese short story anthology)

Lela is 18 yo girl living in the School for Intellectually Disabled Children for almost her whole life. The story is viewed from Lela‘s perspective and she slowly reveals through her everyday life all the misery, abuse and neglecting. The story also touches some broader topics: fears/prejudices in society, and situation in post-Soviet Georgia, but just as the frame for Lela‘s life. Story interesting, some scenes are heartbreaking, some scenes 👇

1/13 #internationalbookerprize2021

I did like this but tbh I liked it less than I was maybe expecting. I loved reading a Georgian book for the first time, it‘s always so exciting to open up a whole new country to read from, but the actual plot and characters of the book left me a little cold. For a book that went to such dark places I guess I was hoping for a more rewarding experience after going there.

Woooo it‘s #bookerinternational2021 time! I did abysmally at getting through the list last year and want to try harder this year though I probably won‘t manage (or be able to afford) all of them. I‘ve bought the tagged book to start with and am very excited to see something translated from Georgian on the list! Anyone else trying to tackle the long list?