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matthew_stone | 1 year ago

Three Booker prize winners I’m particularly fond of:

The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy

The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro

Girl, Woman, Other - Bernardine Evaristo

Pachinko by Min Jin Lee is another recent literary favorite

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atulatul|1 year ago

I haven't read Evaristo but I will add Salman Rushdie to your list. Particularly, Midnight's Children.

matthew_stone|1 year ago

I bounced off Midnight’s Children the first time I tried to read it, but that was probably 10 or 15 years ago now. I’m in between books at the moment, so your comment will push me to put it on the top of my list for the new year :)

Girl, Woman, Other is one of my overall favorites from the last few years. Th character work is phenomenal. Do try to read a hard copy, rather than on an ereader, if you can. The book uses punctuation and the layout of text on a page creatively, and I’m not sure how well that gets preserved in an ebook.

wahnfrieden|1 year ago

Krasznahorkai is by far my favorite Booker recipient

He also did the screenplays for most of Bela Tarr’s movies