“I could go on for ages about SF’s direct links to Woolf and modernism – the subjective and the impersonal, different levels of perspective, a single day in the life of a character and vast deserts of eternity”

With his latest novel, IN ASCENSION, longlisted for the #BookerPrize 2023, Martin MacInnes discusses the interconnectedness of life – & why arts & sciences belong together

#Scottish #literature #sciencefiction #scifi #modernism #humanities #STEM

@bookstodon

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/martin-macinnes-interview-in-ascension

IN ASCENSION
by Martin MacInnes

Congratulations to Martin MacInnes, whose latest novel, In Ascension, has been longlisted for the 2023 #BookerPrize

“Exploring the natural world with wonder and reverence, this compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic reaches outward to confront the great questions of existence, while looking inward to illuminate the human heart.”

#Scottish #literature #scifi #sciencefiction

@bookstodon

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/in-ascension

I've discovered a major blindspot. I brought The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida (by Shehan Karunatilaka; it won the #BookerPrize last year) on my trip and it takes place during the Sri Lankan civil war, and I'm like, what?

So now that I'm home I crack open Wikipedia and holy civilian massacres, Batman. It went on from 1983 till 2009, including during the 2004 Tsunami, and I'm sure we were all too distracted by the #GWoT in the 2000s but before that, you'd think I'd have been more aware of it. Especially during the whole End-of-History-90s.

Speaking of the GWoT, check this out, it's the WTC Colombo! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Trade_Center_Colombo

This is a really interesting piece by #MaxPorter on publishing The Vegetarian, one of my favourite books. https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/max-porter-on-publishing-the-vegetarian-by-han-kang-deborah-smith
#HanKang #Books #Bookstodon #WomenWriters #BookerPrize

Shehan Karunatilaka: How Choose Your Own Adventures helped me win the Booker prize https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/may/27/how-choose-your-own-adventures-helped-me-win-the-booker-prize #InteractiveFiction #gamebooks #CYOA #Gaming #BookerPrize #ShehanKarunatilaka #Books #Reading

'Interessant boek dat me heeft geholpen een scherper beeld te krijgen van een land waar ik vrijwel niets vanaf weet.' Lezer over "Ninth Building" van Zou Jingzhi (vert Jeremy Tiang), over een jeugd tijdens de Culturele Revolutie. Genomineerd voor de Booker Prize.
#China #literatuur #lezen #boeken #ZouJingzhi #BookerPrize @chineseliterature
https://thebobsphere.wordpress.com/2023/05/02/zou-jingzhi-jeremy-tiang-translator-ninth-building-2010-english-translation-2022/

Mooie en uitgebreide recensie van "Ninth Building" van Zou Jingzhi (vert Jeremy Tiang). 'Dit had makkelijk een politiek boek kunnen zijn, dat terugkeek en aan de kaak stelde wat de schrijver is overkomen [in de Culturele Revolutie]. In plaats daarvan is het een nostalgische terugblik op een jeugd die weliswaar doordrenkt was van lijden en dood, maar hem nu desondanks haast een troost is.' #BookerPrize #China #literatuur #CultureleRevolutie #ZouJingzhi @chineseliterature
https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2023/04/20/ninth-building-by-zou-jingzhi-review-ibp-2023-number-ten/

Book 17 of 2023. I usually love booker prize books, but this one was not in my wheelhouse. So meh. But I did read it all.

#book #bookstadon #bookerprize

Interview met Zou Jingzhi, schrijver van "The Ninth Building", en zijn vertaler Jeremy Tiang, ter gelegenheid van hun nominatie voor de Booker Prize. 'Ik bracht mijn dagen verloren door. Wat moest ik schrijven? Alles wat ik schreef was het verkeerde. Het was onmogelijk om mijn kindertijd los te laten. Dus zo ging ik maar schrijven. Ik schreef voor mezelf. Ik schreef om mijn kindertijd los te laten.'
#BookerPrize #China #literatuur #boeken #ZouJingzhi @chineseliterature
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/zou-jingzhi-interview-i-wrote-this-book-to-let-go-of-my-childhood

Fragment uit "Ninth Building" van Zou Jingzhi (vert Jeremy Tiang). Een groepje jongens in het begin van de Culturele Revolutie besluit zelf ook een Rode Gardisten-eenheid te beginnen. Boek is genomineerd voor de Booker Prize.
#China #literatuur #lezen #boeken #ZouJingzhi
#BookerPrize #BookerPrize2023 @chineseliterature
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/ninth-building-extract-by-zou-jingzhi-translated-by-jeremy-tiang

"Ninth Building" van Zou Jingzhi (vert Jeremy Tiang) is genomineerd voor de Booker Prize! 'Een kaleidoskopische en ingetogen bundel van met elkaar verweven verhalen over het leven in een flat tijdens de Culturele Revolutie: de dagelijkse sleur van de bewoners, verlicht door korte, onzekere momenten van gedeelde menselijkheid.'
#China #literatuur #ZouJingzhi #BookerPrize #lezen #boeken
https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/prize-years/international/2023

Can’t wait to #read ‘The Dressmaker’ by Beryl Bainbridge. #novel #BookerPrize #books #fiction. https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-dressmaker-at-50-a-short-novel-that-encapsulates-beryl-bainbridge

Ben Okri on writing his Booker Prize-winning novel The Famished Road | The Booker Prize

"In a new film made exclusively for the Booker Prizes, Ben Okri, the first Black winner of the Booker Prize, explains how he had to create fresh techniques to tell a story rooted in his African childhood"

#BenOkri #BlackMastodon #BookerPrize #Literature #Art #Books #BlackTwitter #AfricanWriters #BlackWriters #AfricanAmerican #Poetry #Documentary #Film

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEASwdrr2LQ

Last night I finished reading the #BookerPrize winner "The Seven Moons of Maalli Almeida" - which I chose mainly because one of my daughters in law is Sri Lankan. I have sometimes been disappointed by prize-winninng books - but not by this one. *Highly* recommended.

It will be a long time before I read a stranger book than Treacle Walker.
#BookerPrize ? #nobel for a lifetimes craft would be fitting. #alangarner

@beffie @bookstodon

Had it on my #bucketlist for a while.
A conversation with an #Indian friend got me to it finally. Beautifully written, a great perspective on #castes, quite incredible for a #firstnovel. #BookerPrize well deserved!

'The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida', 2022 Booker Prize winner, was a particularly difficult read for moi, and not only because the narrator is a murdered gay photojournalist who must solve his own murder to move on in the afterlife, or because of the sheer brutality of the political scenario it depicts. It was the realization that much of this is true..... 1/?
#bookers #BookerPrize #BookerPrice2022

I have just finished reading The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida.
It's dazzling, devastating, wickedly funny, and haunting in every sense.

"We must all find pointless causes to live for, or why bother with breath?"

#ShehanKarunatilaka #SriLanka
#BookerPrize #bookstodon

https://www.washingtonpost.com/books/2022/11/01/booker-prize-winner-seven-moons-of-maali-almeida/

Loved this. A serendipitous find on the ‘take me’ shelves at daughter’s school. #WeNeedNewNames #zim #Zimbabwe #Darling #noVioletBulawayo #IAmReading #books #bookChat #BookerPrize

Loved this #WeNeedNewNames #zim #Zimbabwe #Darling #noVioletBulawayo #IAmReading #books #bookChat #BookerPrize