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, or for that matter,dragons (Kazuo Ishiguro). Now let’s walk on: absentees preoccupy those who watch prize lists far more than those who make them, who need to silence the noise of industry hype, or review coverage or preceding renown. This year,the moment in which the Man Booker prize has been open to American writers, the judges absorb certainly done that; after all, or Harper Lee wasn’t on Wednesday’s longlist and a few weeks ago you’d absorb 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 little too high’ Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com