Booker Prize

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• Jane Rosenthal Reviews Summertime by JM Coetzee

  
  BOOK SA - Reviews — Authority: 432
  Verdict: carrot While some are tired of Coetzee’s narrative games, Rosenthal applauds Summertime for being “thought-provoking and clever”: From Boyhood and Youth to Summertime seems a strange way to conjugate successive titles, but it does adroitly avoid any mention of manhood or adulthood. And it does ...
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• Guardian book club: The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran Desai

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  Told with palpable anger and scant sympathy for its characters, this is a powerful novel but I confess that I struggled to really appreciate it When Kiran Desais Inheritance Of Loss won the 2006 Booker Prize, a few eyebrows were raised. Although she had a famous mother (Anita Desai) who had herself been on the Booker ...
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• Publishers Weekly 2009 Top 100

  
  What Kate's Reading — Authority: 114
  PW posted their top 100 books of 2009, including a top ten that, the Green Lantern Press noted, included no women. Outside of the fact that thats pretty damn astounding and very, very old school of them (complete with dark panelling, great halls in schools, and wear-your-tie-to-class ethos), I cant comment too much ...
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• The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga

  
  Keying-in-Experiences — Authority: 103
  After reading a few pages, it looked as though Aravind Adiga had a list of dark issues about India that he wanted to bring to light. So, he has weaved an excellent story that encompasses all issues. The novel is about a smart villager (White Tiger) who moves to city to become a smart entrepreneur. Adiga’s ...
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• Pi author’s next novel to deal with Holocaust

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  London, November 01 (ANI): Life of Pi author Yann Martel’s next novel ‘Beatrice And Virgil’ will be about Holocaust, in which readers will once again find him focussing on animals.The story revolves around Henry who undertakes an epic journey with a donkey and a howler monkey, named Beatrice and Virgil ...
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• Aravind Adiga’s second novel to be out in 2011

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Oct 29 (IANS) After winning the 2008 Man Booker Prize for his debut novel, “The White Tiger”, Indian-born author Aravind Adiga will publish his second venture “Last Man in the Tower” in early 2011, the author’s publisher said Thursday.The Indian rights for Adiga’s new novel have been acquired by ...
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• The unknown Booker prize

  
  Books: Books blog | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 135
  If you thought it was over-exposed, think again The Booker prize shortlist was announced this month, but you probably wont have read about it. According to one of the judges, the novels in contention all have a historical theme. There was a surprise omission of an award-winning longlisted writer. The reason for the ...
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• Heavyweights vie for book prize

  
  1stAngel Arts Magazine — Authority: 154
  Heavyweights vie for book prize -1.0 5 2009-10-26 14:04:00 1stAngel Award-winning novelists Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie and Aravind Adiga will go head-to-head for this year’s John Llewellyn Rhys literary prize. Adichie’s short story collection The Thing Around Your Neck is her first work since winning ...
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• ‘What Muslims were to BJP, Naxals are to Cong’

  
  churumuri — Authority: 431
  Booker Prize wining author and activist Arundhati Roy in an interview with Karan Thapar on CNN-IBN (to be aired at 8.30 pm tonight, IST) suggests that the “ gravest threat to internal security ” is a bogey. The reason the Manmohan Singh government has zeroed in on Maoists is big business. ...
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• Arundhati Roy urges Centre to drop armed action against Maoist

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 710
  New Delhi, Oct 19 (ANI): Noted Human Rights activist and Booker prize winner, Arundhati Roy, on Monday accused the Union Government for harbouring vested interests behind its armed offensive against the Maoists.Addressing media in the national capital, Roy urged the government not to take armed action against the red ...
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• Giveaway: The Little Stranger and Summertime

  
  Other Stories — Authority: 411
  After a small falling-out with DHL I’ve finally taken delivery of my bargainous Booker Shortlist parcel from The Book People . The joy of having snagged all six hardbacks for £35 is enough to soothe the after effects of trying to find out whether the box was in the depot or on the van or arriving ...
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• ‘Bachchan was the Coolie, but now, in movies, he only lives in villas’

  
  Malik Siraj Akbar writes — Authority: 421
  G Sampath Sunday, October 11, 2009 Even Bollywood has turned its back on the poor, says Arundhati Roy, the Booker prize-winning novelist who, over the years has become the most caustic critic of her own class, and of her country’s policies. In the process, while winning new fans, she’s also alienated ...
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• Confessions of Booker Prize judge Michael Prodger

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  Michael Prodger has learned from his time on the judging panel that there is nothing more dispiriting than a mediocre literary novel.
  6 weeks ago

• Hargreave Hale broker wont go underground on tube fares

  
  Family: News and advice on family matters children and parents — Authority: 975
  City broker George Finlay certainly has a lot of say. The director and major shareholder of brokerage Hargreave Hale popped up on the BBC London News recently in a "man on the street" interview about commuters facing rises in tube fares.
  6 weeks ago

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