‘The Book of Mother’ longlisted for the International Booker Prize
Huge congratulations to Violaine Huisman whose remarkable debut The Book of Mother, translated by Leslie Camhi, published by Virago in the UK, has been longlisted for the International Booker Prize!
The New Yorker called it ‘Enthralling… a marvelous and unsettling début’, and the book was also featured in the New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2021.