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Anonymous Wed Mar 8 00:28:02 2017 No.9206378 [Reply] [Original]

What are the best debut novels of this century?
(So far)

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 8 00:52:10 2017 No.9206478 File: 107 KB, 675x450, aesthetic.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] >>9206378 My Struggle by Karl Ove Knausgaard The Road by Cormac McCarthy The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Diaz

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 8 00:59:58 2017 No.9206500 >>9206478 None of those are Debuts. Knausgaard had previously two novels, Mccarthy had the bulk of his oeuvre previously written behind The Road, and Diaz had Drown (1997) published before he began working on BWLOW.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 8 01:04:01 2017 No.9206521 File: 204 KB, 600x864, saigon-night-club.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] The Sympathizer by Viet Thanh Nguyen.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 8 01:04:05 2017 No.9206523 >>9206500 good catch, i should really read more carefully. i hope this thread is fruitful for you, my friend.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 8 01:05:27 2017 No.9206529 >>9206500 That's the problem. The only writer of note in my generation is Tao Lin and I can't abide the idea that his debut is the debut of the century so far.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 8 01:07:54 2017 No.9206537 >>9206521 This guy knows what's up.

>>	Anonymous Wed Mar 8 01:12:11 2017 No.9206548 Too early for me to tell, because I judge books on whether they can last 2,000 years.