Shortlisted for 2025 International Booker Prize: An excerpt from ‘Small Boat' by Vincent Delecroix
Vincent Delecroix
Translated from French by Helen Stevenson, in this novella, an inflatable dinghy carrying migrants from France to the UK capsizes. How and why did it happen?
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