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)