For August our booksellers were set the task of choosing a book with the theme of Women in Translation. We have chosen to read Not a River by Selva Almada, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2024.

These book clubs will be held in the shop and are suitable for ages 16+ years.

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About the book-

Three men go out fishing, returning to a favourite spot on the river despite their memories of a terrible accident there years earlier. As a long, sultry day passes, they drink and cook and talk and dance, and try to overcome the ghosts of their past. But they are outsiders, and this intimate, peculiar moment also puts them at odds with the inhabitants of this watery universe, both human and otherwise.

The forest presses close, and violence seems inevitable, but can another tragedy be avoided?Rippling across time like the river that runs through it, Selva Almada’s latest novel is the finest expression yet of her compelling style and singular vision of rural Argentina.