2008 Booker Man Prize
This prize is the annual contemporary fiction award for full length novels written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth. Here's the shortlist:
The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga. WINNER (library owns)
Balrams journey from darkness the of village
life to a life of
entrepreneurial success is "utterly amoral, brilliantly irreverent, deeply endearing and
unforgettable.
The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry. (library owns)
The story of life blighted by terrible
mistreatment and ignorance and yet marked still by love, passion and hope. An alternate secret history of Ireland.
A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz. (library owns)
A memorable story of a father and son whose spiritual symmetry
transcends all their many shortcomings.
Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh. (release date
10/14/08)
In a time of colonial upheaval a panorama of characters comes
to view themselves as ship brothers. An
unlikely dynasty is born, which will span continents, races and generations.
The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant. (not available in US)
A story
about concealed past, dark subjects, dark places and stark choices and how the
clothes we wear define us all.
Northern Clemency by Philip
Hensher. (not available in US)
Charts the relationship of two families and creates a deeply
moving portrait of Britain's social landscape through the Thatcher era.
In case you
missed last year's shortlist and winner:
(library owns copies of these titles)
The Gathering by Anne Enright -- WINNER
Darkmans by
Nicola Barker
The
Gathering by Anne Enright
The
Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
On Chesil
Beach by Ian McEwan
Animal's
People by Indra Sinha
