Off law for a minute or two, here’s the shortlist for the Booker
| The shortlist for our most eagerly anticipated fiction prize has landed, featuring five women, one man, two Americans, one Canadian, one Australian and one writer each from Britain and the Netherlands. Diverse in genre, featuring historical reimaginings of slavery, the aftermath of genocide, space exploration and ecological crisis, chair of the judges Edmund de Waal finds they all have something in common: these are, he writes, ‘books that made us want to keep on reading, to ring up friends and tell them about them, novels that inspired us to write, to score music. Here is storytelling in which people confront the world in all its instability and complexity.’
Take a look at the shortlist here, and start reading in time for the announcement of the winner in November. |
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