She Who Remains

The International Booker Prize

She Who Remains

Rene Karabash


The International Booker Prize 2026


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In a strict patriarchal community in the Albanian Alps, a teenage girl becomes a “sworn virgin”, living as a man, to escape an arranged marriage.
Translated by
Izidora Angel
Original language
Bulgarian
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