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The Snow Queen

by Michael Cunningham

Publication: First published 2014
ISBN: 9781250067715

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A heartbroken man turns to religion after seeing a vision in the sky above Central Park while his musician brother takes drugs he thinks will help him compose a ballad for his seriously ill wife.

Prize history

International Dublin Literary Award
2016

Longlist

International Dublin Literary Award 2016 longlist

Family Life

Akhil Sharma

Winner
A Brief History of Seven Killings

Marlon James
Academy Street

Mary Costello
Dept. of Speculation

Jenny Offill
Diary of the Fall

Michel Laub
Lila

Marilynne Robinson

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A Memory Called Empire

Arkady Martine
A Song for a New Day

Sarah Pinsker
Afropessimism

Frank B. Wilderson III
Burn the Place

Iliana Regan
Burnt Sugar

Avni Doshi
Cantoras

Carolina De Robertis

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