Uploaded March 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago

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Anne Serre’s ‘A Leopard-Skin Hat’ somehow feels like the longest book on the longlist. Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize 2025.

4 or 5/10

A Leopard-Skin Hat: A series of short scenes paints the portrait of a strong-willed and tormented young woman battling many demons, and of the narrator’s loving and anguished attachment to her. Serre poignantly depicts the bewildering back and forth between hope and despair involved in such a relationship, while playfully calling into question the very form of the novel. Written in the aftermath of the death of the author’s little sister, A Leopard-Skin Hat is both the celebration of a tragically foreshortened life and a valedictory farewell, written in Anne Serre’s signature style.

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