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A Booklover’s Guide to World Cup 2014

By Danny Scott

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Group A

Brasil
Zero by Ignacio de Loyola Brandão, Dalkey Archive Press

Croatia
Mama Leone by Miljenko Jergović, Archipelago Books

Mexico
Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, Anagrama

Cameroon
Dark Heart of the Night by Lianora Miano, Bison Original

Group B

Spain
Dublinesque by Enrique Vila-Matas, Harvill Secker

Chile
2666 by Roberto Bolaño, Picador

The Netherlands
Rembrant’s Whore by Sylvie Matton, Canongate International

Australia
The Secret River by Kate Grenville, Canongate Books

Group C

Colombia
The Informers by Juan Gabriel Vasquez, Riverhead Books

Greece
Kassandra and the Wolf by Margarita Karapanou, Clockroot Books

Ivory Coast
Aya by Marguerite Abouet, Jonathan Cape

Japan
Ring by Koji Suzuki, Harper Collins

Group D

Uruguay
The Invisible Mountain by Carolina Robertis, Harper Collins

Costa Rica
Years Like Brief Days by Fabian Dobles, Peter Owen

England
The Ball is Round by David Goldblatt, Penguin

Italy
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano, Doubleday

Group E

Switzerland
Night Train To Lisbon by Pascal Mercier, Atlantic Books

Ecuador
Wolves’ Dream by Abdón Ubidia, Latin American Literary Review Press

France
The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery, Gallic Books

Honduras
The Ships by Roberto Quesada

Group F

Argentina
Shantytown by César Aira, New Directions

Bosnia and Herzegovina
Bridge Over The Drina by Ivo Andric, Harvill Press

Iran
The Blind Owl by Sadegh Hedayat, Alma Classics Ltd

Nigeria
On Black Sister’s Street by Chika Unigwe, Vintage

Group G

Germany
The Mussel Feast by Birgit Vanderbeke, Peirene Press Ltd

Ghana
Ghana Must Go by Taiye Selasi, Penguin

Portugal
Act of the Damned by António Lobo Antunes, Grove Press

USA
Friday Night Lights by H. G. Bissinger, Yellow Jersey

Group H

Algeria
The Tongue’s Blood Does Not Run Dry by Assia Djebar, Seven Stories Press

Belgium
Marcel by Erwin Mortier, Pushkin Press

Russia
Maidenhair by Mikhail Shishkin, Open Lette

South Korea
Please Look After Mother by Kyung-Sook Shin, Phoenix

13. 06. 2014.