The Black Snow No 5 in French Booksellers’ Awards

The French booksellers’ awards has voted The Black Snow as one of the five best international novels published in this year’s rentrée littéraire. Three-hundred booksellers voted from a pool of 205 novels in two categories — French and foreign novels, according to Livres Hebdo.

The best international novels were:

Toni Morrison — Issuances (Bourgois)

Marisha Pessl — Interior Night  (Gallimard)

Jon Kalman Stefansson — Moreover, fish do not have feet of (Gallimard)

Javier Cercas — The Impostor (Actes Sud) 

Paul Lynch — The Black Snow (Albin Michel)