Six languages. Six countries. Three continents. The novels on this year's International Booker Prize shortlist span cultures, styles and the breadth of human experience.
"Novels carry us to places where we might never set foot and connect us with new sensations and memories," said Eleanor Wachtel, International Booker Prize 2024 Chair of judges in a statement. "Our shortlist opens onto vast geographies of the mind, often showing lives lived against the backdrop of history or, more precisely, interweaving the intimate and the political in radically original ways."
