Winners of the Booker Prize
Booker Prize Öffentlich
Erstellt von Phil in SF
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The Sense of an Ending von Julian Barnes
Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry they would navigate the girl-less sixth …
Phil in SF sagt: 2011 winner
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Swimming Home von Deborah Levy
As he arrives with his family at the villa in the hills above Nice, Joe sees a body in the …
Phil in SF sagt: 2012 winner
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The Luminaries von Eleanor Catton
It is 1866, and Walter Moody has come to make his fortune upon the New Zealand goldfields. On arrival, he …
Phil in SF sagt: 2013 winner
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The Narrow Road to the Deep North von Richard Flanagan
Forever after, there were for them only two sorts of men: the men who were on the Line, and the …
Phil in SF sagt: 2014 winner
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A Brief History of Seven Killings von Marlon James
JAMAICA, 1976
Seven gunmen storm Bob Marley’s house, machine guns blazing. The reggae superstar survives, but the gunmen are never …
Phil in SF sagt: 2015 winner
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A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, …
Phil in SF sagt: 2016 winner
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Lincoln in the Bardo von George Saunders
The extraordinary first novel by the bestselling, Folio Prize-winning, National Book Award-shortlisted George Saunders, about Abraham Lincoln and the death …
Phil in SF sagt: 2017 winner
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Milkman von Anna Burns
In this unnamed city, to be interesting is dangerous. Middle sister, our protagonist, is busy attempting to keep her mother …
Phil in SF sagt: 2018 winner
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Girl, Woman, Other von Bernardine Evaristo
Grace is a Victorian orphan dreaming of the mysterious African father she will never meet.
Winsome is a young Windrush …
Phil in SF sagt: 2019 joint winner
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The Testaments von Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale, #2)
4 Sterne
Margaret Atwood’s dystopian masterpiece, The Handmaid’s Tale, is a modern classic. Now she brings the iconic story to a dramatic …
Phil in SF sagt: 2019 joint winner
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Shuggie Bain von Douglas Stuart
It is 1981. Glasgow is dying and good families must grift to survive. Agnes Bain has always expected more from …
Phil in SF sagt: 2020 winner
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The Promise charts the crash and burn of a white South African family, living on a farm outside Pretoria. The …
Phil in SF sagt: 2021 winner
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Seven Moons of Maali Almeida von Shehan Karunatilaka
4 Sterne
Colombo, 1990. Maali Almeida, war photographer, gambler and closet queen, has woken up dead in what seems like a celestial …
Phil in SF sagt: 2022 winner
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5 Sterne
On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB …
Phil in SF sagt: 2023 winner
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Orbital von Samantha Harvey, Sarah Naudi (Narrator)
4 Sterne
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments and test the limits of …
Phil in SF sagt: 2024 winner
