The Booker Prize 2023

Normalerweise hat immer @Liath die Longlist des Booker Prize vorgestellt, aber leider hat sie abgemeldet. Gestern hat die Jury die dreizehn Bücher der Longlist bekannt gegeben.

Die Jury:

Die Romanautorin Esi Edugyan , die zweimal in die engere Wahl für den Booker Prize kam, ist Vorsitzende der Jury 2023 und wird von der Schauspielerin, Autorin und Regisseurin Adjoa Andoh unterstützt ; Dichterin, Dozentin, Herausgeberin und Kritikerin Mary Jean Chan ; Professor für Englische und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft an der Columbia University und Shakespeare-Spezialist James Shapiro ; und Schauspieler und Autor Robert Webb . (Kopiert von Booker Prize)

Die Jury sucht nach dem besten Roman, ausgewählt aus Beiträgen, die zwischen dem 1. Oktober 2022 und dem 30. September 2023 im Vereinigten Königreich und Irland veröffentlicht wurden.

Die Longlist mit 13 Büchern – das „Booker Dozen“ – wurde am 1. August 2023 bekannt gegeben, die Shortlist mit sechs Büchern folgt am 21. September. Der Gewinner des 50.000-Pfund-Preises wird bei einer Veranstaltung im Old Billingsgate, London, bekannt gegeben. am 26. November 2023.

In den nächsten Post, zeige ich jedes Buch einzeln auf Englisch und wenn vorhanden in der deutschen Übersetzung.

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

MOST ANTICIPATED BOOK OF 2023: the Observer, Guardian, Financial Times, Stylist, the Express and Oprah Daily

Ayòbámi Adébáyò, the Women's Prize-shortlisted author of Stay With Me, unveils a dazzling story of modern Nigeria and two families caught in the riptides of wealth, power, romantic obsession and political corruption.

Eniola is tall for his age, a boy who looks like a man. His father has lost his job, so Eniola spends his days running errands for the local tailor, collecting newspapers and begging, dreaming of a big future.

Wuraola is a golden girl, the perfect child of a wealthy family. Now an exhausted young doctor in her first year of practice, she is beloved by Kunle, the volatile son of family friends.

When a local politician takes an interest in Eniola and sudden violence shatters a family party, Wuraola and Eniola's lives become intertwined. In this breathtaking novel, Ayòbámi Adébáyò shines her light on Nigeria, on the gaping divide between the haves and the have-nots, and the shared humanity that lives in between.

Gibt es Glück in einem zerrissenen Land?

Eniola ist groß für sein Alter, ein fünfzehnjähriger Junge im Körper eines Mannes. Jeden Tag fürchtet er die Schläge seiner Lehrer, denn seit der Entlassung des Vaters fehlt das Geld für seine Schulgebühren. Bis Eniola als Laufbursche einer Näherin der wohlhabenden Yeye begegnet.

Wuraola dagegen hat Glück: Die junge Ärztin ist frisch verlobt, ihr Freund Kunle stammt aus besten Verhältnissen. Während ihre Mutter Yeye vom Hochzeitskleid träumt, zeigen sich erste Risse. Die Familie wird bedroht, seit Kunles Vater als Gouverneur kandidiert. Und der amtierende Honorable wirbt für seine Leibgarde Jugendliche an, so groß und kräftig wie Männer.

Ein aufwühlender Roman über Privileg und Armut in einem zerrütteten Nigeria – und über die Kosten des Glücks.

»Ein nigerianischer Pageturner!« NDR Kultur über Ayobami Adebayos Debütroman »Bleib bei mir«

»Ein wunderbarer, vor erzählerischer Kraft strotzender Roman.« Süddeutsche Zeitung über »Bleib bei mir«

»Ein intensiver, sensibler Roman über den Verlust der Liebe.« taz über »Bleib bei mir«

'A tragicomic triumph. You won't read a sadder, truer, funnier novel this year' Guardian

'It's a thing of beauty, a novel that will fill your heart' Observer

Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking, The Bee Sting is a tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart . . .

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.

Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil - can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?

Few novelists write this simply and richly. With this gorgeous debut, Maroo blows most of the competition off the court.’ - The Times

'Terrific . . . Slim, subtle, moving . . . a bold book and a quietly brilliant one' - The Economist

A beautiful and moving first novel about grief, sisterhood and a teenage girl's struggle to transcend herself.

Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo.

But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.

An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.

'[Western Lane] feels like the work of a writer who knows what they want to do, and who has the rare ability to do it.' - The Guardian

Monumental' Telegraph

'Magnificent' Guardian

'Transcendent' New Scientist

Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.

Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.

Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how - no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.

I haven't read a book that has shaken me so intensely in many years... The comparisons are inevitable – Saramago, Orwell, McCarthy – but this novel will stand entirely on its own.' Colum McCann, author of Apeirogon

An Irish Times 'Book to Look Forward to in 2023'

A fearless portrait of a society on the brink as a mother faces a terrible choice, from an internationally award-winning author

On a dark, wet evening in Dublin, scientist and mother-of-four Eilish Stack answers her front door to find the GNSB on her step. Two officers from Ireland’s newly formed secret police are here to interrogate her husband, a trade unionist.

Ireland is falling apart. The country is in the grip of a government turning towards tyranny and when her husband disappears, Eilish finds herself caught within the nightmare logic of a society that is quickly unravelling.

How far will she go to save her family? And what – or who – is she willing to leave behind?

Exhilarating, terrifying and propulsive, Prophet Song is a work of breathtaking originality, offering a devastating vision of a country at war and a deeply human portrait of a mother’s fight to hold her family together.

*LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE FOR FICTION 2023*

'Written from the perspective of an autistic mother, All the Little Bird-Hearts is a poetic debut which masterfully intertwines themes of familial love, friendship, class, prejudice and trauma with psychological acuity and wit' The Booker Prize Judges 2023

'Glorious. Unforgettable' Melissa Harrison

'Funny, lyrical, deft and devastating' Amy Sackville

'A distinct and poetic new voice' Clare Pollard

Sunday Forrester lives with her sixteen-year-old daughter, Dolly, in the house she grew up in. She does things more carefully than most people. On quiet days, she must eat only white foods. Her etiquette handbook guides her through confusing social situations, and to escape, she turns to her treasury of Sicilian folklore. The one thing very much out of her control is Dolly - her clever, headstrong daughter, now on the cusp of leaving home.

Into this carefully ordered world step Vita and Rollo, a couple who move in next door, disarm Sunday with their charm, and proceed to deliciously break just about every rule in Sunday's book. Soon they are in and out of each others' homes, and Sunday feels loved and accepted like never before. But beneath Vita and Rollo's polish lies something else, something darker. For Sunday has precisely what Vita has always wanted for herself: a daughter of her own.

Marianne is eight years old when her mother goes missing. Left behind with her baby brother and grieving father in a ramshackle house on the edge of a small village, she clings to the fragmented memories of her mother’s love; the smell of fresh herbs, the games they played, and the songs and stories of her childhood.

As time passes, Marianne struggles to adjust, fixated on her mother’s disappearance and the secrets she’s sure her father is keeping from her. Discovering a medieval poem called Pearl and trusting in its promise of consolation, Marianne sets out to make a visual illustration of it, a task that she returns to over and over but somehow never manages to complete.

Tormented by an unmarked gravestone in an abandoned chapel and the tidal pull of the river, her childhood home begins to crumble as the past leads her down a path of self-destruction. But can art heal Marianne? And will her own future as a mother help her find peace?

Masterful . . . [This Other Eden] has much to say to our times.' Guardian

'A testament of love . . . so real it could make you weep.' Danez Smith, New York Times

'A luminous, thought-provoking novel.' Esi Edugyan, author of Washington Black

Set at the beginning of the twentieth century and inspired by historical events, This Other Eden tells the story of Apple Island: an enclave off the coast of the United States where waves of castaways - in flight from society and its judgment - have landed and built a home.

Benjamin Honey- American, Bantu, Igbo- born enslaved- freed or fled at fifteen- aspiring orchardist, arrived on the island with his Irish wife, Patience, and discovered they could make a life together there. More than a century later, the Honeys' descendants remain, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbours. Then comes the intrusion of 'civilization': officials determine to 'cleanse' the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities' institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah's Ark.

Full of lyricism and power, Paul Harding's This Other Eden explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference.

'Harding invites comparisons with authors such as William Faulkner, Robinson and even Elizabeth Strout . . . This Other Eden . . . begs to be widely read.' Spectator

** LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023 **

Meet Jamie and his community on the west coast of Ireland, in the most uplifting and tender book of the year

'A gorgeous gift of a novel' Douglas Stuart, no.1 bestselling author of Shuggie Bain

'Heart-rending and delightful' Louise Kennedy, no.1 bestselling author of Trespasses

Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind these things are intimately linked. And at his new school, where all else is disorientating and overwhelming, he finds two people who might just be able to help him.

How to Build a Boat is the story of how one boy and his mission transforms the lives of his teachers, Tess and Tadhg, and brings together a community. Written with tenderness and verve, it's about love, family and connection, the power of imagination, and how our greatest adventures never happen alone.

'Beautifully rendered and imagined' - Anne Enright

'A heart-stopping read' - Sinéad Gleeson

'Bursting with soul' - Lisa McInerney

'I can't wait for readers to fall in love' - Jan Carson

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

'Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory' MARLON JAMES

'An absolute delight to read' DIANA EVANS

'Superb … A strong, much needed new voice in our literature' PERCIVAL EVERETT

'A compelling hurricane of a book' ANN PATCHETT

A major debut that follows a Jamaican family in Miami navigating recession, racism and Hurricane Andrew.

1979. Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But they soon learn that the welcome in America will be far from warm.

Trelawny, their youngest son, comes of age in a society which regards him with suspicion, greeting him with the puzzled question ‘What are you?’

Their eldest son Delano’s longing for a better future for his own children is equalled only by his recklessness in trying to secure it.

As both brothers navigate the obstacles littered in their path – an unreliable father, racism, a financial crisis and Hurricane Andrew – they find themselves increasingly pitted against one another. Will their rivalry be the thing that finally tears their family apart?

If I Survive You pulses with inimitable style, heart and barbed humour while unravelling what it means to carve out an existence between cultures, homes and pay checks. It announces Jonathan Escoffery as a chronicler of life at its most gruesome and hopeful.

LONGLISTED FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FOR FICTION

‘A debut so brilliant it stopped me in my tracks … Astonishing’ I NEWSPAPER

'Utterly unstoppable … a book that you simply do not want to end' IRISH TIMES

'A commanding debut from a talent to watch' OBSERVER

'Sings with authenticity and heart' ANOTHER

‘Astonishingly compact and engaging … Dazzling' JOYCE CAROL OATES

A most anticipated Book of 2023 in AnOther Magazine, Huffington Post UK and i Newspaper

Wenn leben heißt, der Welt zu trotzen

Selbst innerhalb seiner Familie ist Trelawny ein Außenseiter. Als Einziger ist er in Miami geboren. Seine Eltern, Topper und Sanya, sowie sein Bruder Delano sind vor der Gewalt auf Jamaica hierher geflohen. Die Vereinigten Staaten sind für sie nie wirklich ein Zuhause geworden. Sie alle kämpfen darum, irgendwie einen Fuß auf den Boden zu bekommen – gegen Ausgrenzung und Armut, gegen Heimatlosigkeit und Rassismus. Und insgeheim weiß Trelawny, wenn überhaupt, hat nur er die Chance auf ein besseres Leben. Auf ein Leben in einer Gesellschaft, die es ihm und seiner Familie unendlich schwer macht.

»Dies ist ein fesselnder Wirbelsturm von einem Buch, das Vergangenheit, Gegenwart und Zukunft zu einem unentwirrbaren Knoten verwebt. Hier beginnt Jonathan Escofferys Karriere. Seinem Schaffen sind keine Grenzen gesetzt.« Ann Patchett

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

NAMED AS ONE OF GRANTA MAGAZINE'S BEST OF YOUNG BRITISH NOVELISTS 2023

A powerful, compressed masterwork for fans of Shirley Jackson and Claire-Louise Bennett

A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.

Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property...

THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER

TWICE WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

'A masterpiece' Sunday Times

'Stunning' LIZ NUGENT

'Extraordinary' Irish Times

Tom Kettle, a retired policeman, and widower, is settling into the quiet of his new home in Dalkey, overlooking the sea.

His solitude is interrupted when two former colleagues turn up at his door to ask about a traumatic, decades-old case. A case that Tom never quite came to terms with. And his peace is further disturbed when his new neighbour, a mysterious young mother, asks for his help.

A beautiful, haunting novel, in which nothing is quite as it seems, Old God's Time is an unforgettable exploration of family, loss and love.

WHAT READERS ARE SAYING:

***** 'A beautiful family love story. It will haunt you and break your heart.'

***** 'Deeply felt and so moving. I will be reading this again.'

***** 'A tragic tale beautifully told. Sebastian Barry is one of the great contemporary writers.'

***** 'Absolute perfection in novel form.'

***** 'Deeply tragic. Deeply humorous. Utterly beautiful. I'm in awe.'

***** 'A writer in possession of something divine . just exceptional.'

***** 'Magically transporting . the balance of extreme grief and joy are perfectly expressed.'

LONGLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 2023

A SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

It is 1921 and at Cassowary House in the Straits Settlements of Penang, Robert Hamlyn is a well-to-do lawyer and his steely wife Lesley a society hostess. Their lives are invigorated when Willie, an old friend of Robert’s, comes to stay.

Willie Somerset Maugham is one of the greatest writers of his day. But he is beleaguered by an unhappy marriage, ill-health and business interests that have gone badly awry. He is also struggling to write. The more Lesley’s friendship with Willie grows, the more clearly she see him as he is – a man who has no choice but to mask his true self.

As Willie prepares to leave and face his demons, Lesley confides secrets of her own, including how she came to know the charismatic Dr Sun Yat Sen, a revolutionary fighting to overthrow the imperial dynasty of China. And more scandalous still, she reveals her connection to the case of an Englishwoman charged with murder in the Kuala Lumpur courts – a tragedy drawn from fact, and worthy of fiction.

From Man Booker Prize-shortlisted Tan Twan Eng, The House of Doors is a masterful novel of public morality and private truth a century ago. Based on real events it is a drama of love and betrayal under the shadow of Empire.

Zitat von Magdalena

Danke fürs Zusammentragen, buechereule!

Gerne.

"Old God's time" von Sebastian Barry und "If I survive you" von Jonathan Escoffery habe ich schon auf den Kindle.

Paul Lynch "Prophet Song" ist vorbestellt.

Bei Sarah Bernsteins "Study of Obdience", dem kürzesten Buch der Liste, bin ich äußerst skeptisch und hebe es mir für den Schluss auf.