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Reading guide: Study for Obedience by Sarah Bernstein
In her accomplished and unsettling second novel, Sarah Bernstein explores themes of prejudice, abuse and guilt through the eyes of a singularly unreliable narrator
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An extract from Small Comfort by Ia Genberg, translated by Kira Josefsson
‘Names that end with ‘son’, spelled with just one ‘s’, they sound American. Easy to pronounce in English. Couldn’t tell you why, but it’s true. A name is important, a marker you should finesse if you can. Ia … is that short for something?’
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11 Booker-nominated novels that contain dramatic love triangles
If you enjoy novels that seethe with romantic tension, you’ll love this selection of books full of scandalous secrets and passionate affairs
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The Man Booker International Prize 2007
Nigerian author Chinua Achebe was awarded the Man Booker International Prize for his literary career in 2007.
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An extract from A Spell of Good Things by Ayọ̀bámi Adébáyọ̀
A dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption
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Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann, wins the International Booker Prize 2024
Today, May 21, Kairos by Jenny Erpenbeck, translated by Michael Hofmann, is announced as the winner of the International Booker Prize 2024
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Love Forms
In this heart-aching novel, a mother searches for the daughter she left behind a lifetime ago
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Richard Powers on Offshore
As part of a series for the Booker website, shortlisted writers choose a book from the Booker Library that has had a profound impact on them. Richard Powers reaches out of his comfort zone to pick up Penelope Fitzgerald’s Offshore, which, when he finally puts it down, leaves him ‘a different kind of reader’.
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An extract from Reservoir Bitches by Dahlia de la Cerda, translated by Julia Sanches and Heather Cleary
Life’s a bitch. That’s why you’ve got to rattle her cage, even if she’s foaming at the mouth. A linked story collection of gritty, streetwise, and wickedly funny fiction from Mexico
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Damon Galgut's Booker Prize year: 'It's been like a literary festival that never ends'
From a global tour to reconnecting with long-lost friends, the author of The Promise explains how winning the Booker Prize in 2021 changed his life