Man Booker Prize... e ficaram 6

Ontem foram anunciados os 6 finalistas para aquele que será o último Man Booker Prize (pelo menos com este nome):

Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments (Vintage, Chatto & Windus)

Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press)

Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton)

Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities (Little Brown)

Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte (Jonathan Cape)

Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Viking)

Aguçaram-me a curiosidade

Um dos nomeados para o Booker Prize deste ano é uma longa frase de 1000 páginas [Quartzy]

 

In total, it’s a 426,100-word sentence—readers get several brief respites from the protagonist’s inner monologue with a parallel story, told from the perspective of a mountain lioness.

reading Ellmann is like finding bits of broken glass in your lollipop

Many readers note that the book is funny and innovative, some even call it genius.

Nomeações para o Booker Prize 2019

A lista daqui:

• Margaret Atwood (Canada), The Testaments (Vintage, Chatto & Windus)
• Kevin Barry (Ireland), Night Boat to Tangier (Canongate Books)
• Oyinkan Braithwaite (UK/Nigeria), My Sister, The Serial Killer (Atlantic Books)
• Lucy Ellmann (USA/UK), Ducks, Newburyport (Galley Beggar Press)
• Bernardine Evaristo (UK), Girl, Woman, Other (Hamish Hamilton)
• John Lanchester (UK), The Wall (Faber & Faber)
• Deborah Levy (UK), The Man Who Saw Everything (Hamish Hamilton)
• Valeria Luiselli (Mexico/Italy), Lost Children Archive (4^th Estate)
• Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), An Orchestra of Minorities (Little Brown)
• Max Porter (UK), Lanny (Faber & Faber)
• Salman Rushdie (UK/India), Quichotte (Jonathan Cape)
• Elif Shafak (UK/Turkey), 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Viking)
• Jeanette Winterson (UK), Frankissstein (Jonathan Cape)

Será que é este o ano de Margaret Atwood?