Shadow IFFP shortlist

Well the proper IFFP shortrlist came out today from Booktrust  .Their choices are –

By night the mountain burns by Juan Tomas Avila Laurel

Translator Jethro Soutar

Colorless Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage by Haruki Murakami

Translator Philip Gabriel

F by Daniel Kehlmann

Translator – Carol Brown Janeway

The end of days by Jenny Erpenbeck

Translator Susan Bernofsky

In the beginning was the sea by Tomas Gonzalez

Translator – Frank Wynne

While the gods where sleeping by Ervin Mortier

Translator – Paul vincent .

Now it has become tradition for the shadow jury to decide there own shortlist from the longlist and this year it is the longlist plus one .I’ve fallen behind in reviews have read all but two of the longlist and was fairly happy with our shortlist .

Shadow shortlist 

The End of Days by jenny Erpenbeck 

Translator – Susan Bernofsky

Zone by Mathias Enard 

Translator – Charlotte Mandell

The Ravens by Tomas Bannerhed 

Translator Sarah Death

The Dead Lake by Hamid Ismailov 

Translator – Andrew Broomfield

Bloodlines by Marcelo Fois 

Translator – Silvester Mazzarella

Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and his years of pilgrimage by Harauki Murakami

Translator – Philip Gabriel

I’ve manage to review five of our shortlist , we share two books with the actual shortlist we will announce the winner the day before the actual winner .