Booker Prize
Prize Reads
Hartosh Singh Bal
This year’s Booker winner and last year’s winner of the Prix Goncourt have arrived simultaneously at Indian bookstores. Here are some good reasons to pick one over the other
‘The Discipline of the Short Story is Terrifying’
Alan Hollinghurst on fighting laziness, living in the world of his novels and the pressures of being a gay writer
First Candidate for a Cold Shower
The Booker-winning author’s enthusiasm for bewildering metaphors is just one of his many literary failures
Too Much to Handle
The humour and quiet elegance do work. But two-time Booker winner Peter Carey packs in so many characters and subplots that you’re exhausted.
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