 | Voice Over by Celine Curiol
Buy new: £9.89 / Used from: £0.16 Another good example of the French twist on the romantic novel; a station announcer's unrequited love for a nameless "Him".
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 | A Blessed Child by Linn Ullmann
Buy new: £12.74 / Used from: £3.14 The Scandinavian summer holiday of three grown-up sisters becomes a way of looking back at their past
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 | The Blue Fox by Sjon
Buy new: £5.24 / Used from: £1.38 Shipwrecks, Iceland and the hunt for an elusive blue fox in the stark cold of the 1880s
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 | Friendly Fire by A.B. Yehoshua
Buy new: £9.09 / Used from: £0.99 One of Israel's most distinguished novelists writes the relationship between a husband and wife separated for a week by a sad funeral
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 | My Father's Wives by Jose Eduardo Agualusa
Buy new: £8.35 / Used from: £1.49 Famous Angolan composer Faustino Manso left 7 grieving and not-so-grieving wives, and eighteen kids. The youngest tries to make sense of it all...
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 | The White King by Gyorgy Dragoman
Buy new: £5.99 / Used from: £1.20 Story of eighties Romania told from child's point of view - won tons of prizes in the original Hungarian
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 | The Informers: Translated from the Spanish by Anne McLean by Juan Gabriel Vasquez
Buy new: £14.44 / Used from: £4.71 Secrets, lies and the Nazis in wartime Colombia, as a son struggles to understand his father's past
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 | Homesick by Eshkol Nevo
Buy new: £7.19 / Used from: £1.38 Two sides of a shared party wall in a Tel Aviv apartment block; two completely different stories
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 | Beijing Coma by Ma Jian
Buy new: £11.58 / Used from: £4.23 Just as the title suggests - Dai Wei has been in a coma since being shot in Tianamen Square. Likely to win, judging by the countless flawless reviews
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 | The Diving Pool by Yoko Ogawa
Buy new: £9.00 / Used from: £1.08 Collection of novellas including many favourite Japanese motifs - amputees, diaries, cruelty, weird infatuations.
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 | Novel 11, Book 18 by Dag Solstad
Buy new: £10.50 / Used from: £8.11 A claustrophobic mid-life crisis from Norway's cleverest novelist. Bleak but comic.
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 | The Director by Alexander Ahndoril
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £0.01 Raved-about Swedish novel reconstructing the making of Ingmar Bergman's "Winter Light". Bergman approved of the novel (coincidentally his daughter Linn is the number 2 on this list)
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 | The Armies by Evelio Rosero
Buy new: £9.48 / Used from: £7.06 A small Colombian village is wrecked by the nearby drugs wars, and yet the villagers try to keep going. Very violent.
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 | How The Soldier Repairs The Gramophone by Sasa Stanisic
Buy new: £11.69 / Used from: £0.98 Sweet but sad novel of a Bosnian childhood cut short by war and remembered from a new life as a refugee in Germany
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 | The Siege by Ismail Kadare
Buy new: £16.14 / Used from: £0.58 An amazing and life-changing novelist, Kadare tells the story of a 15th century Christian town in Albania besieged by the Ottoman empire. Battles as good as the Lord of the Rings said Adam Lively
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 | Night Work by Thomas Glavinic
Buy used from: £0.63 Jonas wakes up one day in Vienna, and everyone has disappeared. Slightly bonkers, but great.
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