Man Booker’s Longlist

Have you read these? Titles listed on Man Booker Prize for 2009 are here. So which book will be the one to win this year’s prize, you can have your say on this blog.

The children’s book by A. S. Byatt

Summertime by J. M. Coetzee

The quickening maze by Adam Foulds

How to paint a dead man by Sarah Hall

The wilderness by Samantha Harvey

Me Cheeta by James Lever

Wolf hall by Hilary Mantel

The glass room by Simon Mawer

Not untrue & not unkind by Ed O’Loughlin

Helipolis by James Scudamore

Brooklyn by Colm Toibin

Love and summer by William Trevor

The little stranger by Sarah Waters

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Writing into dangarous

Angel’s game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

The famous Spanish author whose previous fiction ‘The shadow of the wind’  was so greatly received by readers all around the world, some says only after Don Quixote, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, again, gives us a great literature book. His second novel, ‘The angel’s game’, has all similar brutality of crime scene, labyrinth of history as well as a bookstore for the background. 

David Martin, a young man, born into poverty, who struggles to get his writing talent recognised, and to get a normal life by living in his dreamed mansion, but it’s all ruins and damages along the way. His love to the writing, his love to his girl friend Cristina and his relationship with his mentor Vidal lead him into some very dangerous plots which would cost all he had.  

It is a book about books, about writing, about literature. 1920 Barcelona was a dark and evil place but there was still some shining light because of books and humanity. 

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