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Has anyone read any?

https://thebookerprizes.com/media-centre/press-releases/the-2022-international-booker-prize-longlist-announced

>> No.20050220

>>20050215
lmao i literally wrote every one of these awkward

>> No.20050233

>>20050215
I don't read contemporary novels

>> No.20050239

>>20050233
loser

>> No.20050240

>>20050215

>Tomb of Sand - A novel about grief, Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist.

Oh yeah, copping that NOW!

>> No.20050248

Fitzcarraldobros, we keep winning

>> No.20050275

i have cursed bunny but haven't read it

>> No.20051143

>>20050215
somebody really likes Tilted Axis Press

>>20050240
>Tomb of Sand
hoping for a comfy adventure story about mummies

>> No.20051418

>>20050215
I only read dead authors.

>> No.20051495

>>20050215
any straight white men?

>> No.20051511

>>20051495
are brazilians white?

>> No.20051518

>>20051511
unless they're descendants of the Nazis who escaped there, no

>> No.20051527

>>20050220
I kneel

>> No.20051558

>>20050215
>https://thebookerprizes.com/media-centre/press-releases/the-2022-international-booker-prize-longlist-announced
>Be me
>See long bronze novel named "Tomb of Sand"
>Holy shit some good fiction for once
>Google it
>A novel about grief, Partition, and re-evaluating what it means to be a mother, a daughter, a woman, a feminist.
every time

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20051580

Bros, I'm so fucking tired of clown world

>> No.20051594

>>20051580
>he has invented new modes of storytelling for an era when the old ones no longer suffice
i.e. he doesn't use paragraph breaks.

>> No.20051768

Not, but I have read these

>The Pointer by Peter Watson
>Orbs of Light by Umm J. Otuwba
>I Saw It Pass On By by Lea Xuang
>Great Mythologies Of Moments Past by Jason D'Bourges
>Breathing and Greed by Sally Sanders

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>>20051594
>>20051580
make it stop lads

>> No.20051851

>>20051594
>doesn't use paragraph breaks
thomas bernhard invented that 40 years ago

>> No.20051889

>>20051594
globohomo will soon envelop all things without separation.

>> No.20052034

>>20051580
>one of Denmark's most exciting authors
I have never heard of this guy, but apparently he called our wimpy social-democratic government "racist", so that really says all I need to know about him.

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>>20051143
>Tomb of Sand
>>20050240
It's about the author's vagina.

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>>20051594
Or he doesn't use quotes in direct dialogue. Like somebody else we know.

>> No.20052328

>>20050215
>international
>goes by English translations

>> No.20052511

Books of Jacob sounds great, whatever on rest.

>> No.20052757

What a shit award. This prize is only important to the translator more than anything.
One of these was written in 2009