The International Booker 2025-longlisted. (3)

 On a Woman's Madness, written by Astrid Roemer and translated by Lucy Scott, is a classic of queer literature – as electrifying today as it was when it first appeared in 1982 – that tells the story of a courageous Black woman trying to live a life of her choosing. When Noenka’s abusive husband of just nine days refuses her request for divorce, she flees her hometown in Suriname, on South America’s tropical northeastern coast, for the capital city of Paramaribo. Unsettled and unsupported, her life in this new place is illuminated by romance and new freedoms, but also forever haunted by her past and society’s expectations.

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