2009 Independent Foreign Fiction Longlist

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	"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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	"The Scandinavian summer holiday of three grown-up sisters becomes a way of looking back at their past"

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	"Shipwrecks, Iceland and the hunt for an elusive blue fox in the stark cold of the 1880s"

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	"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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	"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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	"Story of eighties Romania told from child's point of view - won tons of prizes in the original Hungarian"

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	"Secrets, lies and the Nazis in wartime Colombia, as a son struggles to understand his father's past"

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	"Two sides of a shared party wall in a Tel Aviv apartment block; two completely different stories"

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	"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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	"Collection of novellas including many favourite Japanese motifs - amputees, diaries, cruelty, weird infatuations."

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	"A claustrophobic mid-life crisis from Norway's cleverest novelist. Bleak but comic."

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	"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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	"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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	"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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	"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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	"Jonas wakes up one day in Vienna, and everyone has disappeared. Slightly bonkers, but great."