Booker Prize 2010

Hallo zusammen,

gestern wurde die Long List für den Man Booker Prize 2010 bekannt gegeben.

Homepage Booker Prize

Nachstehend Liste ich die Bücher aus der Long List auf.

Die Short List wird am 07.09. bekannt gegeben, der Gewinner am 12. Oktober.

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Oliver ist ein französischer Aristokrat, traumatisiertes Kind der Überlebenden der Revolution, immer in Angst vor neuen Unruhen. Parrot ist der Sohn eines englischen Wanderarbeiters, der ein Künstler sein wollte aber als Diener endete. Auf ihrer Reise in die neue Welt, mal gemeinsam, mal getrennt, entdecken sie das Abenteuer der Amerikanischen Demokratie- erzählt wechselweise aus den Perspektiven von Herrn und Diener. Erfindungsreiche Erzählung einer unmöglichen Freundschaft.

Die deutsche Ausgabe dazu erscheint im Oktober 2010.

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Parrot und Olivier sind zwei Schiffbrüchige des Lebens: Olivier ist adliger Franzose und auf der Flucht vor der Revolution. Parrot ist der buntscheckige Sohn eines englischen Kupferstechers und Falschmünzers, ein Stimmenimitator, den es einmal um den Globus jagt, bis er schließlich Frankreich erreicht. Ein zwielichtiger, einarmiger Marquis spannt sie zusammen: Olivier soll die Gefängnisse der neuen Demokratie von Amerika studieren und Parrot ihm als Kopist, Wächter und Spion folgen.
Nie hat ein ungleicheres Paar seine Füße auf die Planken eines Schiffs gesetzt. Die Reise ins Land der Feuerwaffen und der rauen Sitten wird zu einem komischen Parforce-Ritt. Peter Careys "erzählerischer Mut, sein schier unerschöpflicher Einfallsreichtum und seine überbordende Bilderwelt" (The Sunday Telegraph) machen aus dem Abenteuer ein Feuerwerk, an dem Dickens seine Freude gehabt hätte.

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It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside ...Told in Jack's voice, "Room" is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. Unsentimental and sometimes funny, devastating yet uplifting, "Room" is a novel like no other. 'Emma Donoghue's writing is superb alchemy, changing innocence into horror and horror into tenderness. "Room" is a book to read in one sitting. When it's over you look up: the world looks the same but you are somehow different and that feeling lingers for days' - Audrey Niffenegger. '"Room" is one of the most profoundly affecting books I've read in a long time. Jack moved me greatly. His voice, his story, his innocence, his love for Ma combine to create something very unusual and, I think, something very important ..."Room" deserves to reach the widest possible audience' - John Boyne. 'I loved "Room". Such incredible imagination, and dazzling use of language. And with all this, an entirely credible, endearing little boy. It's unlike anything I've ever read before' - Anita Shreve.

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Leningrad in 1952 is a city recovering from war, where Andrei, a young hospital doctor and Anna, a nursery school teacher, are forging a life together. Summers at the dacha, preparations for the hospital ball, work and the care of sixteen year old Kolya fill their minds. They try hard to avoid coming to the attention of the authorities, but even so their private happiness is precarious. Stalin is still in power, and the Ministry for State Security has new targets in its sights. When Andrei has to treat the seriously ill child of a senior secret police officer, Volkov, he finds himself and his family caught in an impossible game of life and death - for in a land ruled by whispers and watchfulness, betrayal can come from those closest to you. A gripping and deeply moving portrait of life in post-war Soviet Russia, "The Betrayal" brilliantly shows the epic struggle of ordinary people to survive in a time of violence and terror.

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A young man takes three journeys, through Greece, India and Africa. He travels lightly, simply. To those who travel with him and those whom he meets on the way - including a handsome, enigmatic stranger, a group of careless backpackers and a woman on the edge - he is the Follower, the Lover and the Guardian. Yet, despite the man's best intentions, each journey ends in disaster. Together, these three journeys will change his whole life. A novel of longing and thwarted desire, rage and compassion, "In a Strange Room" is the hauntingly beautiful evocation of one man's search for love, and a place to call home.

Eine deutsche Ausgabe erscheint im Oktober 2010.

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Er ist ein Wanderer, der nie anzukommen scheint: Damon, der junge Mann, der auf langen Reisen nach sich selbst sucht und dessen Weg stets auch in sein Inneres führt, ist ein Rastloser, ein Getriebener. Heimatlos, aber voller Sehnsucht nach einem Ort oder einem Menschen, der ihm Geborgenheit vermitteln kann. Doch ob als Gefährte eines jungen Deutschen in Afrika, als Begleiter einer Gruppe Rucksacktouristen oder als Beschützer einer psychisch labilen Frau: Er muss schließlich alle Wege allein zu Ende gehen. Sein Leben aber wird durch jede Reise tief geprägt und für immer verändert.

In drei Geschichten über Sehnsucht und unerfülltes Verlangen, Zorn und Mitleid entblößt der Erzähler vor dem Leser sein Innerstes. »In fremden Räumen« ist ein schockierend schonungsloses, herzzerreißendes Meisterwerk.

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'He should have seen it coming. His life had been one mishap after another. So he should have been prepared for this one...' - Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular former BBC radio producer, and Sam Finkler, a popular Jewish philosopher, writer and television personality, are old school friends. Despite a prickly relationship and very different lives, they've never quite lost touch with each other - or with their former teacher, Libor Sevick, a Czech always more concerned with the wider world than with exam results. Now, both Libor and Finkler are recently widowed, and with Treslove, his chequered and unsuccessful record with women rendering him an honorary third widower, they dine at Libor's grand, central London apartment. It's a sweetly painful evening of reminiscence in which all three remove themselves to a time before they had loved and lost; a time before they had fathered children, before the devastation of separations, before they had prized anything greatly enough to fear the loss of it. Better, perhaps, to go through life without knowing happiness at all because that way you have less to mourn? Treslove finds he has tears enough for the unbearable sadness of both his friends' losses. And it's that very evening, at exactly 11:30 pm, as Treslove, walking home, hesitates a moment outside the window of the oldest violin dealer in the country, that he is attacked. And after this, his whole sense of who and what he is will slowly and ineluctably change. "The Finkler Question" is a scorching story of friendship and loss, exclusion and belonging, and of the wisdom and humanity of maturity. Funny, furious, unflinching, this extraordinary novel shows one of our finest writers at his brilliant best.

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You do not know me yet. My son Thomas, who is publishing this book, tells me, it is customary at this place in a novel to give the reader a little taste of the story that is held within these pages. As your storyteller, I am to convey that this tale is set in Jamaica during the last turbulent years of slavery and the early years of freedom that followed. July is a slave girl who lives upon a sugar plantation named Amity and it is her life that is the subject of this tale. She was there when the Baptist War raged in 1831, and she was also present when slavery was declared no more. My son says I must convey how the story tells also of July's mama Kitty, of the negroes that worked the plantation land, of Caroline Mortimer the white woman who owned the plantation and many more persons besides - far too many for me to list here. But what befalls them all is carefully chronicled upon these pages for you to peruse. Perhaps, my son suggests, I might write that it is a thrilling journey through that time in the company of people who lived it. All this he wishes me to pen so the reader can decide if this is a book they might care to consider. Cha, I tell my son, what fuss-fuss. Come, let them just read it for themselves.

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The acclaimed author of Remainder, which Zadie Smith hailed as “one of the great English novels of the past ten years,”gives us his most spectacularly inventive novel yet.

Opening in England at the turn of the twentieth century, C is the story of a boy named Serge Carrefax, whose father spends his time experimenting with wireless communication while running a school for deaf children. Serge grows up amid the noise and silence with his brilliant but troubled older sister, Sophie: an intense sibling relationship that stays with him as he heads off into an equally troubled larger world.

After a fling with a nurse at a Bohemian spa, Serge serves in World War I as a radio operator for reconnaissance planes. When his plane is shot down, Serge is taken to a German prison camp, from which he escapes. Back in London, he’s recruited for a mission to Cairo on behalf of the shadowy Empire Wireless Chain. All of which eventually carries Serge to a fitful—and perhaps fateful—climax at the bottom of an Egyptian tomb . . .

Only a writer like Tom McCarthy could pull off a story with this effortless historical breadth, psychological insight, and postmodern originality.

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Imagine a nation banishing the outside world for two centuries, crushing all vestiges of Christianity, forbidding its subjects to leave its shores on pain of death, and harbouring a deep mistrust of European ideas. The narrow window onto this nation-fortress is a walled, artificial island attached to the mainland port and manned by a handful of traders. Locked as the land-gate may be, however, it cannot prevent the meeting of minds -- or hearts. The nation was Japan, the port was Nagasaki and the island was Dejima, to where David Mitchell's panoramic novel transports us in the year 1799. For one young Dutch clerk, Jacob de Zoet, a strage adventure of duplicity, love, guilt, faith and murder is about to begin -- and all the while, unbeknownst to the men confined on Dejima, the axis of global power is turning...

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In 1982, the oil rig Ocean Ranger sank off the coast of Newfoundland during a Valentine's night storm. In the early hours of the next morning, all 84 men aboard died. Helen O'Mara is one of those left behind when her husband, Cal, drowns. Her story starts years after the Ranger disaster, but she is compelled to travel back to the 'February' that persists in her mind, and to that moment in 1982 when, expecting a fourth child, she received the call informing her that Cal was lost at sea. A quarter of a century on, late one winter's night, Helen is woken by another phone call. It is her wayward son John, in another time zone, on his way home. He has made a girl pregnant and he wants Helen to decide what he should do. As John grapples with what it might mean to be a father, Helen realises that she must shake off her decades of mourning in order to help. With grace and precision, and a shocking ability to render the precise details of her characters' physical and emotional worlds, Lisa Moore reveals the whole story to us. And just as, finally, we watch the oil rig go down, we see Helen emerging from her grief to greet a new life.

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Why does Skippy, a fourteen-year-old boy at Dublin’s venerable Seabrook College, end up dead on the floor of the local doughnut shop?

Could it have something to do with his friend Ruprecht Van Doren, an overweight genius who is determined to open a portal into a parallel universe using ten-dimensional string theory?

Could it involve Carl, the teenage drug dealer and borderline psychotic who is Skippy’s rival in love?

Or could “the Automator”—the ruthless, smooth-talking headmaster intent on modernizing the school—have something to hide?

Why Skippy dies and what happens next is the subject of this dazzling and uproarious novel, unraveling a mystery that links the boys of Seabrook College to their parents and teachers in ways nobody could have imagined. With a cast of characters that ranges from hip-hop-loving fourteen-year-old Eoin “MC Sexecutioner” Flynn to basketballplaying midget Philip Kilfether, packed with questions and answers on everything from Ritalin, to M-theory, to bungee jumping, to the hidden meaning of the poetry of Robert Frost, Skippy Dies is a heartfelt, hilarious portrait of the pain, joy, and occasional beauty of adolescence, and a tragic depiction of a world always happy to sacrifice its weakest members. As the twenty-first century enters its teenage years, this is a breathtaking novel from a young writer who will come to define his generation.

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Trespass is about place, space, territory... and the iron grip of the past.

Rose Tremain won the 2008 Orange Prize. Her thrilling new novel, Trespass, is a gripping story of redemption and revenge, in the sinister setting of the river gorges of the Cevennes.

Eine deutsche Ausgabe erscheint im Februar 2011.

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Anthony Verey, Mitte 60, früher der bekannteste Antiquitätenhändler Londons, spürt, dass es vorbei ist, sein glamouröses Leben. In Frankreich, in der kargen Landschaft der Cevennen, wo seine Schwester Veronica mit ihrer Geliebten Kitty lebt, möchte er ein Haus kaufen, „bevor es zu spät ist“. Die eifersüchtige Kitty ist mit Anthonys Aufenthalt jedoch völlig überfordert. Bei Veronica hingegen löst der Bruder aufs neue Beschützerinstinkte aus, aber auch Erinnerungen an die gemeinsame Kindheit, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten. Als sich Anthony für das einsame, heruntergekommene Anwesen der Geschwister Aramon und Audrun Lunel interessiert, werden diese von ihrer gewalttätigen Familiengeschichte eingeholt, und Audrun sinnt auf Rache für einen Verrat, der ihr ganzes Leben vergiftet hat. Da macht ein kleines Mädchen, während eines Schulausflugs, eine grausige Entdeckung. Der neue Roman von Rose Tremain ist eine mitreißende Geschichte über Geschwisterliebe, Rache – und die Frage, wie man seinem Leben noch einen Sinn geben kann, wenn man nicht weiß, wie viel Zeit einem noch bleibt. "Gerade einmal 300 Seiten, aber die haben es wirklich in sich – das Werk einer Autorin auf der Höhe ihrer Kunst. Ein durch und durch fesselnder psychologischer Thriller, der unbedingt von Claude Chabrol verfilmt werden sollte." Independent on Sunday "Jeder Satz glüht vor Schönheit." Vogue

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Winner of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize 2009, this title is an international bestseller. At a suburban barbecue, a man slaps a child who is not his own...The reverberations call into question the relationships between all those who witness it. At a suburban barbecue one afternoon, a man slaps an unruly 3-year-old boy. The boy is not his son. It is a single act of violence, but this one slap reverberates through the lives of everyone who witnesses it happen. In his controversial, award-winning novel, Christos Tsiolkas presents an apparently harmless domestic incident as seen from eight very different perspectives. The result is an unflinching interrogation of our lives today; of the modern family and domestic life in the twenty-first century, a deeply thought-provoking novel about boundaries and their limits...

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The Sopranos are back: out of school and out in the world, gathered in Gatwick to plan a super-cheap last-minute holiday to celebrate their reunion. Kay, Kylah, Manda, Rachel and Finn are joined by Finn's equally gorgeous friend Ava - a half-French philosophy student - and are ready to go on the rampage. Just into their twenties and as wild as ever, they've added acrylic nails, pedicures, mobile phones and credit cards to their arsenal, but are still the same thirsty girls: their holiday bags packed with skimpy clothes and condoms, their hormones rampant. Will it be Benidorm or Magaluf, Paris or Las Vegas? One thing is certain: a great deal of fast-food will be eaten and gallons of Guinness will be drunk by the alpha-female Manda, and she will be matched by the others' enthusiastic intake of Bacardi Breezers, vodkas and Red Bull. With Alan Warner's pitch-perfect ear for dialogue, pinpoint characterisation and glorious set-pieces, this is a novel propelled by conversation through scenes of excess and debauchery, hilarity and sadness. Like the six young women at its centre, "The Stars in the Bright Sky" is vivid and brimming with life - in all its squalor, rage, tears and laughter - and presents an unforgettable story of female friendship.

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