Subscribe via RSS 2.0by Ryan McBride - Tuesday May 13 2008 9:38 am
Posted in: Awards
The Best of the Booker is a special award that will celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize.
The six shortlisted books were chosen from a list of 41 Booker Prize and Man Booker Prize winners.
- , The Ghost Road
- , Oscar and Lucinda
- , Disgrace
- , The Siege of Krishnapur
- , The Conservationist
- , Midnight's Children
The winner will be announced July 10.
The Ghost Road - trade paperbackBy Pat Barker - $16.50
Winner of the 1995 Booker Prize for Fiction.Two men divided by class and experience find unexpected links during the World War I experience in Barker's hard-hitting novel of war and survival. The f...
Disgrace - trade paperbackBy J. M. Coetzee - $21.95
Winner of the 2000 Commonwealth Writer's Prize for Best Book.Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize for Fiction.Winner of the 1999 Booker Prize. David Lurie, middle aged and twice divorced, is a scholar w...
The Siege of Krishnapur - trade paperbackBy J. G. Farrell - $21.00
Winner of the 1973 Booker Prize for Fiction.The year is 1857. In Krishnapur, the British community carries on its serene existence, complacently ignoring the rumours of trouble among the native tro...
The Conservationist - trade paperbackBy Nadine Gordimer - $21.00
Winner of the 1974 Booker Prize for Fiction.Mehring, a wealthy, dominating South African industrialist moves to preserve his way of life, his power, and his possessions in the face of massive injus...
Midnight's Children - trade paperbackBy Salman Rushdie - $22.00
Winner of the1981 Booker Prize for Fiction.Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and finds himself mysteriously 'handcuffed to history' by the coincidence. He is ...
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