{"id":374,"date":"2008-06-24T20:25:29","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T20:25:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/newblog\/?p=374"},"modified":"2008-06-24T20:25:29","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T20:25:29","slug":"sonyas-picks-the-booker-prize-2008-%e2%80%93-six-books-you-shouldnt-miss","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/shekharkapur.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/sonyas-picks-the-booker-prize-2008-%e2%80%93-six-books-you-shouldnt-miss\/","title":{"rendered":"Sonya&#8217;s Picks: The Booker Prize 2008 ? Six books you shouldn&#8217;t miss"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It is unfashionable, I know, to be so swayed  by the hype of western literary prizes. (Haven&#8217;t we been colonial captives long enough ? And we still let a crusty committee in the UK , dictate to us, their system of aesthetics?).<br \/>\nStill, how can one resist the lure of a good Lit shortlist ? So here I am , guilty as charged, caught up , in the excitement of not just the Man Booker Prize, coming in July this year, but also of , the special contest that goes with it.<br \/>\nThe Booker is after all,  the world&#8217;s biggest literary prize, after the Nobel , and the most commercially rewarding. Bizarrely, it doesn&#8217;t allow any American writers, but that doesn&#8217;t prevent the lit world, each year , from getting into a tizzy about winners and losers. This year, we&#8217;re all invited to join the jury too. We get to vote, on the Best book of all ? from  40 years of Bookers prizewiners.<br \/>\nAll we need to do ( besides reading these 6 great books ) is to go online (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/news\/vote\">http:\/\/www.themanbookerprize.com\/news\/vote<\/a>)  by midnight of 8th July, to register our vote. And the 6 books are ?.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><br \/>\n<strong>Pat Barker&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FGhost-Road-Pat-Barker%2Fdp%2F0452276721%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1214312733%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=musiconnet-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Ghost Road<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=musiconnet-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Peter Carey&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FOscar-Lucinda-Peter-Carey%2Fdp%2F0571153046%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1214312835%26sr%3D8-2&#038;tag=musiconnet-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Oscar and Lucinda<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=musiconnet-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>JM Coetzee&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FDisgrace-Penguin-Essential-Editions-Coetzee%2Fdp%2F0143036378%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1214312958%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=musiconnet-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Disgrace<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=musiconnet-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>JG Farrell&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSiege-Krishnapur-Review-Books-Classics%2Fdp%2F159017092X%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1214313049%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=musiconnet-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Siege of Krishnapur<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=musiconnet-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Nadine Gordimer&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FConservationist-Nadine-Gordimer%2Fdp%2F0140047166%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1214313093%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=musiconnet-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">The Conservationist<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=musiconnet-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>Salman Rushdie&#8217;s<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/redirect.html?ie=UTF8&#038;location=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.amazon.com%2FSalman-Rushdies-Midnights-Children-Paperbacks%2Fdp%2F0812969030%3Fie%3DUTF8%26s%3Dbooks%26qid%3D1214313113%26sr%3D8-1&#038;tag=musiconnet-20&#038;linkCode=ur2&#038;camp=1789&#038;creative=9325\">Midnight&#8217;s Children<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=musiconnet-20&amp;l=ur2&amp;o=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" style=\"border:none !important; margin:0px !important;\" \/><br \/>\nAnybody read any ? Any recommendations on any ?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It is unfashionable, I know, to be so swayed by the hype of western literary prizes. (Haven&#8217;t we been colonial captives long enough ? And we still let a crusty committee in the UK , dictate to us, their system of aesthetics?). Still, how can one resist the lure of a good Lit shortlist ? 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