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| ‘This is the first time I’ve seen a prize longlist like this one’ ... the 2020 Booker prize longlist. Photo: Booker prizes |
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Sunday, August 09, 2020
At last, a Booker prize longlist I want to read | Books - The Guardian
This list is remarkably different to past years, featuring several black
authors and debut female writers. And yes, Hilary Mantel by
Book Twitter was excited but baffled that the offerings we usually
expect to be on the list were not there. But to me, the 2020 longlist
has got everything; The Mirror & the Light,
obviously, because the literary world would collapse in on itself if any
prize ignored the trials and tribulations of Cromwell via Mantel. It’s
got American debuts from Kiley Reid and Brandon Taylor, who said of his
novel Real Life: “I didn’t write this book for the white gaze”, which is only a good thing. It’s got some “best of British” offerings from Sophie Ward, Douglas Stuart and Gabriel Krauze; Who They Was,
Krauze’s autobiographical novel detailing his life in a gang, is one
that I had to stop and start repeatedly because it’s a little bit too
real. But it is exceptional – it deserves a place on this list.
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