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Man Booker Prize
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The Man Booker Prize was established to "reward the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the Commonwealth or Republic of Ireland." For more information, including previous winners and nominees, go to The Man Booker Prize.
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2012 Mantel, Hilary Bring Up the Bodies : a Novel A sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell as Anne and her powerful family fight back while she is on trial for adultery and treason. 2012 Adult Fiction Book |
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2011 Barnes, Julian The Sense of an Ending Follows a middle-aged man as he reflects on a past he thought was behind him, until he is presented with a legacy that forces him to reconsider different decisions, and to revise his place in the world. 2011 Adult Fiction Book |
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2010 Jacobson, Howard The Finkler Question Julian Treslove, a radio producer, and Samuel Finkler, a Jewish philosopher, have been friends since childhood and, as they enter middle age, they reminisce over their struggles with self-identity, anti-Semitism, women, love, and the past. 2010 Adult Fiction Book JACOBSO |
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2009 Mantel, Hilary Wolf Hall Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. 2009 Adult Fiction Book |
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2008 Adiga, Aravind The White Tiger Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along. 2008 Adult Fiction Book |
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2007 Enright, Anne The Gathering As nine members of the Hegarty clan gather for the wake of their drowned brother Liam, his sister Veronica remembers the secret he shared with her about what happened in their grandmother's house thirty years ago, a betrayal that spans three generations. 2007 Adult Fiction Book ENRIGHT |
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2006 Desai, Kiran The Inheritance of Loss In a crumbling house in the remote northeastern Himalayas, an embittered, elderly judge finds his peaceful retirement turned upside down by the arrival of his orphaned granddaughter, Sai. 2006 Adult Fiction Book DESAI |
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2005 Banville, John The Sea Following the death of his wife, Max Morden retreats to the seaside town of his childhood summers, where his own life becomes inextricably entwined with the members of the vacationing Grace family. 2006 Adult Fiction Book BANVILL |
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2004 Hollinghurst, Alan The Line of Beauty Moving into the attic room in the Notting Hill home of the wealthy, politically connected Fedden family in 1983, twenty-year-old Nick Guest becomes caught up in the rising fortunes of this glamorous family and finds his own life forever altered by his association during the boom years of the 1980s. 2004 Adult Fiction |
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2003 Pierre, D. B. C Vernon God Little In a small Texas town, fifteen-year-old Vernon finds himself in trouble after his best friend Jesus kills sixteen of his classmates before committing suicide, as he becomes the target of vengeful townspeople and the media. 2003 Adult Fiction |
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