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Long list, or "Man Booker Dozen", for the £ 50,000 Man Booker Prize was announced
This year's list was chosen by a five-judge jury that included philosopher Kwame Anthony Appiah (President); crime writer Val McDermid; cultural critic Leo Robson; writer and feminist critic Jacqueline Rose; and the artist and graphic novelist Leanne Shapton.
The list was selected from 171 submissions, the largest number of titles put forward in the 50-year history of the award.
This is the first year that novels published in Ireland are eligible for the award, following the rules announced in early 2018 that recognized the special relationship between the British and Irish publishing markets.
Here is the long list of the 2018 Man Booker Prize:
Belinda Bauer (UK) – Snap (Bantam Press)
On a sweltering summer day, Jack and his two sisters, eleven years old, are sitting in their broken down car, waiting for their mother to come back and save them. Jack was in charge, she said. I will not be long.
But she does not come back. She never comes back. And life as children know it is changed forever. Three years later, Jack is still in charge – of his sisters, to support them all, to make sure no one knows that they are alone in the house and – all of a sudden – to discover the truth about what happened to his mother. .
Anna Burns (United Kingdom) – Milkman (Faber & Faber)
In this nameless city, being interesting is dangerous. The middle sister, our protagonist, is busy trying to prevent her mother from discovering her boyfriend and keeping everyone in the dark about her meeting with Milkman. But when the first brother-in-law sniffs his fight, and the rumors begin to swell, the middle sister becomes "interesting". The last thing she's always wanted to be. Being interesting, it's being noticed and being noticed is dangerous …
Milkman is a tale of gossip and hearsay, silence and deliberate deafness. It's the story of inaction with huge consequences.
Nick Drnaso (USA) – Sabrina (Granta Books)
Where is Sabrina? The answer is hidden on a videotape, a tape that is en route to multiple media and about to become viral.
Sabrina is the story of what happens when an intimate, "daily" tragedy clashes with the appetites of the 24th-hour news cycle; when the trauma experienced by someone becomes the gossip of another person; when he becomes a fodder for social media, fake news, conspiracy theorists, maniacs, bored.
Esi Edugyan (Canada) – Washington Black (Snake Tail)
The escape is only the beginning. From brutal cane plantations from Barbados to the icy waters of the Canadian Arctic, from London's mud-filled streets to the sinister deserts of Morocco, Washington Black is the story – inspired by a true story – from a destroyed world and research
Guy Gunaratne (UK) – In our mad and furious city (Tinder Press)
For Selvon, Ardan and Yusuf, growing up under the towers of Stones Estate , the summer means what it does in any place: football, music, freedom. But now, after the murder of a British soldier, riots are spreading through the city, and nowhere is safe.
As fury swirls around them, Selvon and Ardan remain focused on their own obsessions, girls and filth. Their friend Yusuf is caught in a different wave, a wave of radicalism breaking through his local mosque, threatening to carry with him his troubled brother Irfan
Daisy Johnson (UK) – Everything Under (Jonathan Cape
Words are important to Gretel, have always been child, she lived on a canal boat with her mother and, together, they invented a language of their own.It did not saw his mother since the age of sixteen, although – there is almost a life – and these memories have faded away.
Now, Gretel is working as a lexicographer, updating the entries in his dictionary. A phone call from the hospital interrupts Gretel's isolation and asks questions for a long time.He begins to remember the private vocabulary of her childhood.He also remembers other things: the wild years spent on the river, the strange boy and lonely who came to stay on the boat one winter; and the creature in the water – a channel thief? – swim upstream, get closer and closer. Finally, there will be nothing more to do in Gretel but to go back
Sophie Mackintosh (UK) – The Water Cure (Hamish Hamilton)
Imagine a very close world of ours: where women are not safe in their bodies, where desperate measures are needed to raise a girl. It's the story of Grace, Lia and Sky, kept out of the world for their own good and taught the terrible things that every woman must learn about love. And that's the story of the men who come to find them – three stranded strangers near the sea, their hungry and insistent glances, dragging desire and destruction in their wake.
The Water Cure is a dream of fever, a blazing vision of suffering, fraternity and transformation. Sophie Mackintosh puts us face the brutality of love, demanding to know the price of survival in a hostile world.
Michael Ondaatje (Canada) – Warlight (Jonathan Cape)
It's 1945, and London is still in shock from the Blitz and the war years. Nathaniel, 14, and her sister, Rachel, are apparently abandoned by their parents, entrusted to an enigmatic character named The Moth. They suspect that he could be a criminal, and become both more convinced and less worried when they get to know his eccentric team of friends: men and women with a common story, all of whom seem determined to protect and educate (in ways) Rachel and Nathaniel. But are they really what and who they claim to be? A dozen years later, Nathaniel began to discover everything that he did not know or did not understand at that time, and that is this trip – through the reality, the memory and the Imagination – which is narrated in this magnificent novel.
Richard Powers (USA) – The Overstory (Willian Heinemann)
Nine aliens, each in different ways, are summoned by trees, gathered in one last position to save the few remaining hectares of mainland rainforest.
The Overstory takes place in concentric rings of nested fables, ranging from New York to the wars of the northwestern twentieth century and beyond, revealing a world next to ours – vast, slow, resourceful , beautifully inventive and almost invisible to us. It's the story of a handful of people who are learning to see this world and who are drawn into the disaster that is unfolding.
Robin Robertson (UK) – The long socket (Picador) [19659002WalkerestunvétérandujourJavecuntroubledestressposttraumatic;ilnepeutpasrentrerchezluidanslesrégionsruralesdelaNouvelle-Écosseetchercheplutôtlalibertél'anonymatetlaréparationEndéménageantdeNewYorkàLosAngelesetàSanFrancisconousassistonsàunepériodecrucialedefracturedansl'histoireaméricainequiaaussipermisaufilmnoirdeprospérer
While Walker is trying to reconstruct the & # America begins to disintegrate: deeply paranoid, doubting its own certainties, driven by social and racial division, the spiral of corruption and the collapse of city centers. The Long Take speaks of a good man, brutalized by war, haunted by violence and apparently doomed to return to it – but determined to regain kindness in the world and in himself.
Sally Rooney (Ireland) – Normal Persons (Faber & Faber)
At school, Connell and Marianne affect not to know each other. People know that Marianne lives in the white mansion with the driveway and that Connell's mother is a housekeeper, but no one knows the particular relationship between these facts. In spite of these social entanglements, a connection develops between them and when they both have places to study at Trinity College Dublin, it lasts a long time in the following years
Normal People tells how a person can change lives from another person. a simple but profound realization that unfolds wonderfully during the novel. He tells us how difficult it is to talk about how we feel and he tells us – flamboyant – about cycles of domination, legitimacy and privilege.
Donal Ryan (Ireland) – From a Low and Calm Sea (Doubleday Ireland
The Refugee The Dreamer The Penitent From Syria Torn by War Ireland, three men, marked by all that they loved and lost, are looking for a version of their home, each one attracted by a powerful calculation, which will bring them closer in the most unexpected way.
Rachel Kushner (Jonathan Cape) – The Mars Room (Vintage)
Romy Hall is at the beginning of two consecutive life sentences, plus six years, to the correctional facility for Stanville women.Outside, it's the world from which she was definitely separated: the San Francisco of her youth, has changed almost beyond recognition.The striptease club of the Mars Room, where she once had Dancing for a living, and his seven-year-old son, Jackson, now in the care of the mother. Romy's
Romy sees the future stretching ahead of her in a long, unshakable line – until news from outside reveals a ferocious urgency, putting her on the map. to the challenge of escaping his own destiny.
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