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Winner of the 2021 Booker Prize |
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The Promise Check:Hardcover
Brutal emotional truths hit home in Damon Galgut’s deft, powerful story of a diminished family and a troubled land. |
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About the Booker Prize |
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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland. It is a prize that transforms the winner’s career. The winner receives £50,000 as well as the £2,500 awarded to each of the six shortlisted authors. Both the winner and the shortlisted authors are guaranteed a global readership and can expect a dramatic increase in book sales. |
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The 2021 shortlist |
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The Promise Check:Hardcover
Brutal emotional truths hit home in Damon Galgut’s deft, powerful story of a diminished family and a troubled land. |
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A Passage North Check:Hardcover
Anuk Arudpragasam's masterful novel is an attempt to come to terms with life in the wake of the devastation of Sri Lanka's 30-year civil war. |
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No One Is Talking About This Patricia Lockwood’s sincere and delightfully profane love letter to the infinite scroll, and a meditation on love, language and human connection. |
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The Fortune Men Check:Hardcover
Nadifa Mohamed’s gripping novel about a petty criminal in Cardiff who becomes the last man to be hanged there, wrongfully convicted of murder in 1952. |
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Bewilderment Check:Hardcover
An astrobiologist thinks of a creative way to help his rare and troubled son in Richard Powers’ deeply moving and brilliantly original novel. |
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Great Circle The lives of a fearless female aviator and the actress who portrays her on screen decades later intersect in Maggie Shipstead’s vivid, soaring novel. |
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