Of the 13 long-listed books, three are the first novels – ‘After Sappho’ by Selby Wynn Schwartz, ‘Nightcrawling’ by Leila Motley and ‘Maps of Our Specular Bodies’ by Maddie Mortimer. At 20, Leila Motley is now the youngest author to join the long list, while Alan Garner, 87, is the oldest. At 116 pages, Claire Keegan’s “Small Things Like This” is the shortest book ever to make it to the long list.
On the Booker jury this year are cultural historian and author Neil McGregor, academic and broadcaster Shahida Bari, historian Helen Castor, author and critic M. John Harrison, and novelist and poet Ellen Mabankou. The judges read a total of 169 submissions.
Neil McGregor, chairman of the Booker Prize 2022 judges, said in a statement, “Extraordinarily well written and carefully crafted, in any style, they seem to exploit and expand on the language that we find.” What can you do?”
Here’s the long list of Booker Prize 2022:
‘Glory’ by Nouvelle Bulawayo
The novel follows the fall of the old horse, the long-serving leader of a fictional country, and the drama follows the path of true salvation to a disorderly nation of beasts.
‘Trust’ by Hernan Diazzo
The book engages the reader in his search for truth, while confronting the deceptions that often lie at the heart of personal relationships, the reality-warping power of capital, and the ease with which power can manipulate facts.
‘The Trees’ by Percival Everett
The story of the novel hinges on a series of deceptive and gruesome murders in the town of Money, Mississippi, where Emmett Till, a 14-year-old African American boy who was murdered in 1955, was abducted, tortured and beaten after being charged. was killed. For humiliating a white woman in her family’s grocery store.
‘Booth by Karen’ Joy Fowler
It is a historical novel about the man who shot Abraham Lincoln, John Wilkes Booth and his family.
‘Treacle Walker’ by Alan Garner
The book is about a young boy named Joe who visits a wanderer and healer, which leads to an unexpected friendship. It is a surprising fusion of myth and folklore and an exploration of the fluidity of time, the vivid story of an introspective young mind trying to make sense of everything around it.
‘The Seven Moons of Mali Almeida’ by Shahan Karunatilak
The book is about a war photographer trapped in the horrors of civil war in what appears to be a celestial visa office. In the afterlife, time is running out for him. He has seven moons to try to contact the man and woman he loves most and lead them into a hidden cache of photos that will rock Sri Lanka.
‘Small Things Like This’ by Claire Keegan
The shortest book on the list, it is a feminist take on Dickens, an unmarried teenage-born boy who makes a living as a coal merchant, husband and father of five daughters, and faces a crisis of faith and conscience.
‘Case Study’ by Graeme McRae Burne
In this novel, a supernatural young woman believes that a charismatic psychotherapist Collins Braithwaite has driven her sister to suicide. Intending to confirm her suspicions, she assumes a false identity and presents herself as a client, recording her experiences in a series of notebooks.
‘The Colony’ by Audrey Magee
In 1979, as violence erupts across Ireland, two outsiders travel to a small island off the west coast in search of answers of their own, despite the cost to the islanders.
‘Maps of Our Glorious Bodies’ by Maddie Mortimer
It is a coming-of-age story of an end-of-life. Entirely heart-wrenching but deeply funny, it’s a symphonic journey through a woman’s body: a wild and lyrical celebration of desire, forgiveness, and the inner part of all of us.
‘Nightcrawling’ by Leela Motley
Based on a true crime involving institutional abuse, brutality and corruption at the Oakland Police Department in 2015, “Nightcrawling” gives voice to 17-year-old Kiara Johnson, who becomes after her father’s death and mother’s detention in a rehab facility . The sex worker will have to pay for the rent increase.
‘After Sappho’ by Selby Lynn Schwartz
The book begins in 1880s Italy, introducing the child who would grow up to be the Italian poet Lina Poletti, and moving forward in time, spotlighting groundbreaking writers and artists including Virginia Woolf, Josephine Baker and Radcliffe Hall. grows.
‘Oh William!’ by Elizabeth Stroud
The book explores William and Lucy’s past and present relationship with impressive nuance and subtlety—including their early fascination, their missteps, their deep, lasting memories and connection, and their lingering sensitivity, vulnerability, and dependence on each other. Is.
Meanwhile, for those unaware, the Booker Prize for Fiction should not be confused with the International Booker Prize, which focuses on translation. Its winner, the primary prize in the work of the Booker Foundation, receives £50,000. Each of the six authors ultimately selected is to receive £2,500 plus a specially bound edition of his or her book.
Finally, the shortlist of six books will be announced on 6 September and the winner will be announced on 17 October.