'Portraits of what it means to be alive today': how we chose the 2023 Booker prize shortlist | Books

From Sarah Bernstein’s absurdist novel to Jonathan Escoffery’s astonishingly assured debut, this year’s novels offered a full range of lived experience and made for an exciting shortlist

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