Man TigerLonglisted for the Man Booker International Prize for Fiction 2016. A new bestseller from the prize winning author of Beauty Is a Wound. A wry, affecting tale set in a small town on the Indonesian coast, Man Tiger tells the story of two interlinked and tormented families and of Margio, a young man ordinary in all particulars except that he conceals within himself a supernatural female white tiger. The inequities and betrayals of family life coalesce

having bumped into them at the gym

because it is the true herald of spring

delivered through Riad Sattouf 's dazzlingly original graphic style

I drank every night to forget her

Successful leaders know their own styles

jury and executioner

the short sentences

both by the authors and by the millions of other people worldwide whose lives have been positively affected by these simple principles

learning to line dance

The Treasure Dragon Girls

'Landau's stunning collection Skeletons opens: "So whatever's the opposite of a Buddhist that's what I am"

and of Aulus a genial sluggard whose prowess at the table carries him all the way to the throne before collapsing his family's reputation for ever