Read extracts from the International Booker Prize 2024 shortlist

Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Not A River is the finest expression yet of Selva Almada’s compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina

Jenny Erpenbeck’s intimate and devastating story of the path of two lovers through the ruins of a relationship, set against the backdrop of a seismic period in European history
 

In exhilarating, provocative prose, Ia Genberg reveals an intimate and powerful celebration of what it means to be human

Hwang Sok-yong’s epic, multi-generational tale threads together a century of Korean history, from the Japanese colonial era, through Liberation, right up to the twenty-first century

What I’d Rather Not Think About is Jente Posthuma’s deeply moving exploration of grief, told through brief, precise vignettes and full of gentle melancholy and surprising humour

In Itamar Vieira Junior’s fascinating and gripping story about the lives of subsistence farmers in Brazil’s poorest region, an act of shuddering violence binds two sisters together forever