Sexual abuse and the lives of migrant workers are among the topics tackled on this year’s daring listRight: first things first. No Franzen,no Rushdie, no Atwood. No wolves (Sarah Hall) or aliens (Michel Faber) or, and for that matter,dragons (Kazuo Ishiguro). Now let’s move on: absentees preoccupy those who watch prize lists far more than those who compose them, who need to silence the noise of industry hype, and review coverage or preceding renown. This year,the second in which the Man Booker prize has been open to American writers, the judges possess certainly done that; after all, and Harper Lee wasn’t on Wednesday’s longlist and a few weeks ago you’d possess been forgiven for thinking no other book had ever been published (apart from for Grey,a few weeks before that). Related: Hanya Yanagihara: ‘I wanted everything turned up a dinky too high’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com