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THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS - 1995 |
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| The Man Booker Prize for Fiction represents the very best in contemporary fiction. One of the world's most prestigious awards, and one of incomparable influence, it continues to be the pinnacle of ambition for every fiction writer. It has the power to transform the fortunes of authors, and even publishers. |
| Winner! The Ghost Road by Pat Barker In The Moor`s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie revisits some of the same ground he covered in his greatest novel, Midnight`s Children. This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a gravestone in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the death sentence that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor because he ages at twice the rate of normal humans. Yet Moor`s story of travail is bigger than Rushdie`s; it encompasses a grand struggle between good and evil while Moor himself stands as allegory for Rushdie`s home country of India. Filled with wordplay and ripe with humor, it is an epic work, and Rushdie has the tools to pull it off. He earned a... Read more... |
| In Every Face I Meet by Justin Cartwright In The Moor`s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie revisits some of the same ground he covered in his greatest novel, Midnight`s Children. This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a gravestone in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the death sentence that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor because he ages at twice the rate of normal humans. Yet Moor`s story of travail is bigger than Rushdie`s; it encompasses a grand struggle between good and evil while Moor himself stands as allegory for Rushdie`s home country of India. Filled with wordplay and ripe with humor, it is an epic work, and Rushdie has the tools to pull it off. He earned a... Read more... |
| The Moor`s Last Sigh: A novel by Salman Rushdie In The Moor`s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie revisits some of the same ground he covered in his greatest novel, Midnight`s Children. This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a gravestone in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the death sentence that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor because he ages at twice the rate of normal humans. Yet Moor`s story of travail is bigger than Rushdie`s; it encompasses a grand struggle between good and evil while Moor himself stands as allegory for Rushdie`s home country of India. Filled with wordplay and ripe with humor, it is an epic work, and Rushdie has the tools to pull it off. He earned a... Read more... |
| Morality Play by Barry Unsworth In The Moor`s Last Sigh Salman Rushdie revisits some of the same ground he covered in his greatest novel, Midnight`s Children. This book is narrated by Moraes Zogoiby, aka Moor, who speaks to us from a gravestone in Spain. Like Moor, Rushdie knows about a life spent in banishment from normal society--Rushdie because of the death sentence that followed The Satanic Verses, Moor because he ages at twice the rate of normal humans. Yet Moor`s story of travail is bigger than Rushdie`s; it encompasses a grand struggle between good and evil while Moor himself stands as allegory for Rushdie`s home country of India. Filled with wordplay and ripe with humor, it is an epic work, and Rushdie has the tools to pull it off. He earned a... Read more... |
| Riders by Tim Winton After traveling through Europe for two years, Scully and his wife Jennifer wind up Read more... |
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