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âMost of us had one or two favoured novels that really struck us, but we couldnât persuade the others, or sometimes there was a novel where we thought this was a really really good, thoroughly satisfying novel, but does it quite break the new ground or change the horizon in the way we hope a Booker winner would?â said Williams.
âWhen you think of whatâs won the Booker over the years, you want something that puts down a slightly fresh marker ⦠Thatâs not to say you look for novelty for its own sake. The other thing about a Booker winner is that it ought to be a book that people enjoy reading, call me old-fashioned if you like. You donât want something that is so experimental as to be highly satisfying to the author and a few ultra-sophisticated critics. You do want something that will keep people turning the pages.â
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This year s Booker longlist is so sensible it feels almost radical
For once, the judges have ignored experimental fiction and plumped for novels that are - shock, horror - a pleasure to read
27 July 2021 • 12:01am
Down to the last 13: (from l to r) Kazuo Ishiguro, Damon Galgut, Rachel Cusk, Maggie Shipstead and Nadifa Mohamed
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Phew. The Booker longlist has been announced for 2021 and after years of technical trickery and an over-willingness to engage in identity politics, we have a longlist of 13 novels that is so sensible, it feels almost radical.
There are no graphic novels, no 200-page poems, no brain-scrambling first-person narratives. Instead, here is a longlist featuring several big hitters – Kazuo Ishiguro; Damon Galgut; Richard Powers; Rachel Cusk – that combines meaty contemporary issues with novels that are, whisper it, by and large a pleasure to read. Perhaps emboldened by the relief and approval that met last year’s winner, the
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