Hindustan Times
I always argue against literary prizes, but the result of the Man Booker this year was a delight. Read more
(2 votes, average: 3.5 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, October 18, 2010 at 6:34 pm
Filed under Page Turner · Tagged award night, comic novel, Howard Jacobson, Kalooki Nights, Man Booker, Soumya Bhattacharya, The Finkler Question
Two-thirds of the way into his new, Man Booker-shortlisted book, In a Strange Room, South African writer Damon Galgut writes: “A journey is a gesture inscribed in space, it vanishes even as it’s made… Things happen once only and are never repeated, never return. Except in memory.” Read more
(1 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Soumya Bhattacharya on Monday, October 4, 2010 at 8:14 pm
Filed under Books · Tagged adine Gordimer, Boyhood, Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room, JM coetzee, Man Booker-shortlist, Nobel winners, Summertime, The Paris Review, Youth
