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The Booker Prize - Long List August 2019 |
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The testaments
by Margaret Atwood
A long-anticipated sequel to the best-selling The Handmaid’s Tale is set 15 years after Offred stepped into an unknown fate and interweaves the experiences of three female narrators from Gilead.
Country: Canada
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Night boat to Tangier : a novel
by Kevin Barry
Two Irish drug-smuggling partners reevaluate a career marked by violence, betrayal and exile during a nocturnal vigil in a sketchy Spanish ferry terminal where one of them would reconnect with an estranged daughter.
Country: Ireland
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My sister, the serial killer : a novel
by Oyinkan Braithwaite
Realizing that her beautiful, beloved younger sister has murdered yet another boyfriend, an embittered Nigerian woman works to direct suspicion away from the family, until a handsome doctor she fancies asks for her sister's number.
Country: UK/Nigeria
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Ducks, Newburyport
by Lucy Ellmann
Latticing one cherry pie after another, an Ohio housewife tries to bridge the gaps between reality and the torrent of meaningless info that is the United States of America.
Country: USA/UK
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The wall : a novel
by John Lanchester
When the island nation of an Earth-like world builds a concrete barrier around its entire coastline, a Defender charged with protecting his section of the Wall from the desperate Others trapped outside begins questioning the political divides of his insular existence.
Country: UK
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The Man Who Saw Everything
by Deborah Levy
Staging a photograph in tribute to a Beatles album cover as a gift to his hosts in Communist East Berlin, a narcissistic young historian endures a near-miss that changes his life trajectory.
Country: UK
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Lost children archive
by Valeria Luiselli
Traces a profoundly human family summer road trip across America that is shaped by historical and modern displacement tragedies as well as a growing rift between the two parents.
Country: Mexico/Italy
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An orchestra of minorities : a novel
by Chigozie Obioma
In a contemporary twist of Homer's The Odyssey, a guardian spirit recounts the tragic story of a Nigerian poultry farmer who sacrifices everything for the wealthy woman he loves.
Country: Nigeria
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Lanny : a novel
by Max Porter
Follows the awakening of a mythical being in a London village, where he observes the domestic dramas and creative energies surrounding a mischievous, ethereal young newcomer.
Country: UK
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Quichotte : a novel
by Salman Rushdie
A modern adaptation of Don Quixote that finds a courtly, addled salesman embarking on a cross-country journey with his imaginary son after falling impossibly in love with a television star.
Country: UK/India
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Frankissstein
by Jeanette Winterson
A transgender doctor falls in love with a celebrated professor who is leading the debate about artificial intelligence and conducting controversial experiments impacting cryogenics and the sex trade.
Country: UK
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