The German writer’s first novel to be translated into English tackles young hopes, lives lived online — and the angst of turning 30
The author’s archly modulated, precise prose has lost none of its power in this immensely readable collection of short stories
The Canadian author’s marvellous epic novel leaps back and forth through history to reinvent great lives
The American writer follows the misadventures of a prince, a trans teen, an undercover cop and more in this tightly wound tale
Iain Pears’ biography of Francis Haskell and Larissa Salmina is a tale of east-west romance in the cold war
Rachel Joyce’s story of family havoc; Oisín Fagan’s epic tale; Nussaibah Younis’s wildly witty debut; and Adam Nicolson’s paean to birds
Belatedly translated into English, the veteran author has been International Booker-shortlisted for her illuminating short-story collection
The Mexican author’s disturbing short stories subvert the comforting conventions of family life
Amid the ideas and wordplay, the author’s new novel only occasionally recalls the brilliance of his Patrick Melrose quintet
The poet captures to heart-rending effect the shame attached to adolescent queer desire
Why the intimate and flexible genre is favoured by dissidents and political exiles
Megan Hunter spans the decades in a sensual novel that traces the emotional fallout from an unexpected death
The late Peruvian Nobel laureate, who died this week, was a virtuoso storyteller and a visionary interpreter of his continent’s dreams. This pick of FT reviews, interviews and features looks back at his life and work
The great Peruvian writer charted the culture and turbulent politics of Latin America in his exuberant, often thoroughly entertaining books. Here are some of the best
Sayaka Murata’s eyebrow-raising new novel is set in an alternative Japanese society of artificial insemination and suppressed desire
The German writer explores friendship, family and generational trauma in three luminous interconnected essays
Ingenious, elegant and inventive, the Nobel Prize-winning writer was a virtuoso storyteller of private passions and power misused
The feted novelist coolly dissects hidden narratives and the performative side of everyday conversation and relationships
Three books that bring real insight into how dreams create a window to our psyches and mirror the anxieties of our times
From a portrait of an Insta-perfect couple to the first in a seven-novel sequence about a woman stuck in a time loop, here are our critics’ views of five of the translated works of fiction in the running for this year’s award
Shortlisted for the International Booker, the French philosopher’s new novel is a damning exploration of apathy in the face of calamity
Two sixtysomethings strike up an unlikely liaison in this contemporary fairy tale by the ‘Call Me by Your Name’ author
Body modification in Korea, short stories about automatons through history, and how humans might cope in a dystopian Lilliput
Fact and fiction merge in Burhan Sönmez’s novel about a man out to avenge the wrong done to Kafka
In the first two of seven volumes, the International Booker-longlisted Danish author follows her protagonist, again and again, through the same day
