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The Booker Prize Award Winners |
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2021 The Promise by Damon Galgut"Haunted by an unmet promise, the Swart family loses touch after the death of their matriarch. Adrift, the lives of the three siblings move separately through the uncharted waters of South Africa; Anton, the golden boy who bitterly resents his life's unfulfilled promises; Astrid, whose beauty is her power; and the youngest, Amor, whose life is shaped by a nebulous feeling of guilt. Reunited by four funerals over three decades, the dwindling family reflects the atmosphere of its country - an atmosphere ofresentment, renewal, and - ultimately - hope. The Promise is an epic drama that unfurls against the unrelenting march of national history, sure to please current fans and attract many new ones" |
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2020 Shuggie Bain by Douglas StuartA young boy growing up in a rundown 1980s Glasgow public housing facility pursues some semblance of a normal life as his older siblings move on and his mother increasingly succumbs to alcoholism. |
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2019 (Two Winners)The Testaments by Margaret AtwoodA 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. |
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Girl, Woman, Other by Bernardine EvaristoGirl, Woman, Other is a celebration of the diversity of Black British experience. Moving, hopeful, and inventive, this extraordinary novel is a vivid portrait of the state of contemporary Britain and the legacy of Britain's colonial history in Africa and the Caribbean. The twelve central characters of this multi-voiced novel lead vastly different lives. These unforgettable characters also intersect in shared aspects of their identities, from age to race to sexuality to class.
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2018
In Northern Ireland during the Troubles of the 1970s, an unnamed narrator finds herself targeted by a high-ranking dissident known as Milkman.
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2017 Lincoln in the Bardo by George SaundersTraces a night of solitary mourning and reflection as experienced by the sixteenth president after the death of his eleven-year-old son at the dawn of the Civil War. |
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2016 The Sellout by Paul BeattyA biting satire by the author of The White Boy Shuffle traces a young man's isolated upbringing and a racially charged trial that sends him to the Supreme Court. |
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2015 A Brief History of Seven Killings by Marlon JamesA tale inspired by the 1976 attempted assassination of Bob Marley spans decades and continents to explore the experiences of journalists, drug dealers, killers, and ghosts against a backdrop of period social and political turmoil. |
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2014 The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard FlanaganHaunted by the death of his wife while attending brutally sick and injured soldiers at a World War II Japanese POW camp, surgeon Dorrigo Evans receives a letter that irrevocably shapes the subsequent decades of his life in Australia. |
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2013 The Luminariesby Eleanor CattonProstitute Anna Wetherell is arrested on the same day that three men with various connections to her disappear from a coastal New Zealand town during the 1866 gold rush. |
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2014 Bring up the bodies by Hilary MantelA sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. |
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2011 The Sense of an Ending by Julian BarnesFollows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the world |
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2010 The Finkler Question by Howard JacobsonJulian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood; As they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past. |
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