Paul Harding’s Maine-based historical novel “This Other Eden,” Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah’s dystopian “Chain-Gang All-Stars” and Justin Torres' multi-generational “Blackouts” are among the fiction finalists for the National Book Awards.
This combination of photos shows cover art for"This Other Eden" by Paul Harding, from left,"Chain-Gang All-Stars" by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah,"Blackouts" by Justin Torres, Temple Folk" by Aaliyah Bilal and"The End of Drum-time" by Hanna Pylvanien, who are among the National Book Award finalists for fiction.
In nonfiction, the nominees are Ned Blackhawk's “The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History,” Cristina Rivera Garza's “Liliana’s Invincible Summer: A Sister’s Search for Justice,” Christina Sharpe's “Ordinary Notes,” Raja Shehadeh's “We Could Have Been Friends, My Father and I: A Palestinian Memoir” and John Vaillant's “Fire Weather: A True Story from a Hotter World.
Bora Chung's “Cursed Bunny,” translated from the Korean by Anton Hur, is a translation finalist. Others include David Diop's “Beyond the Door of No Return, translated from the French by Sam Taylor; Stênio Gardel's ”The Words That Remain," translated from the Portuguese by Bruna Dantas Lobato; Pilar Quintana's “Abyss,” translated from the Spanish by Lisa Dillman; and Astrid Roemer's “On a Woman’s Madness,” translated from the Dutch by Lucy Scott.
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