Tag: booker prize
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News: The longlist for the Booker Prize 2022 has been announced
The 2022 Booker Prize longlist has been announced, including three debuts, the shortest book as well as the youngest and oldest authors ever to be nominated.
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10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World
“Never be ashamed of your tears. Cry and everyone knows you’re alive.”
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Milkman
“At the time, age eighteen, having been brought up in a hair-trigger society where the ground rules were – if no physically violent touch was being laid upon you, and no outright verbal insults were being levelled at you, and no taunting looks in the vicinity either, then nothing was happening, so how could you be under attack from something that wasn’t there? At eighteen I had no proper understanding of the ways that constituted encroachment.”
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Quichotte
“Normal doesn’t feel so normal to me,” I tell him. “It’s normal to feel that way,” he replies.”
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Never Let Me Go
“The problem, as I see it, is that you’ve been told and not told. You’ve been told, but none of you really understand, and I dare say, some people are quite happy to leave it that way.”
Have You Read This 