A novel which has “the disturbing power of a bad dream” has been shortlisted for a £10,000 book prize. The Cemetery In Barnes by 77-year-old novelist Gabriel Josipovici is one of six books up for the prize. Judges described the novel as a “disturbing meditation on death and desire” in “three interweaving voices, whose total effect has the disturbing power of a bad dream”. Gabriel Josipovici (Gabriel Josipovici)Josipovici is the author of 18 novels. The Goldsmiths Prize celebrates “fiction at its most novel”.

Source: Irish Examiner September 26, 2018 19:52 UTC