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Congrats to the authors that made the @manbookerprize 2017 Longlist 😍📚 •• #manbooker #manbookerprize #award #author #booklist #summerreading #bookstagram #readstagram (at Strand Book Store)

"It was the worst of times, it was the worst of times. Again. That's the thing about things. They fall apart, always have, always will, it's in their nature." • • I'm continuing on reading the Man Booker shortlist. The other one I've read is Exit West. I still have to read Elmet & History of Wolves. I'm not sure about Lincoln in the Bardo & 4321. And I'm pretty sure the winner will be announced before I get to the ones on my TBR but that happens to me all the time so 💁🏻 • • Very excited about Autumn though. My first Ali Smith and I'm enjoying it so far 🍁🍂 #booksandtea #stackofbooks #manbooker #bookandflowers

‘Maps for Lost Lovers’ is about the honour killing of two lovers, Jugnu and Chanda, and the immigrant experience in contemporary Britain. It is moreover about retaining the Muslim faith in an “unsacred country” where assimilation is increasingly necessary and painful, with cultures clashing at every corner. Aslam’s diction is fiercely lyrical throughout which is something that I personally love, although I’ve seen many reviews where it is described as too ‘flowery’, or experienced fellow students complaining that it is too ‘metaphorical’. I say drown me in metaphors. I loved every page of this and have resultantly underlined a perfect sentence on almost every page. It’s slow moving, but it’s worth every tenderly turned page to absorb every last drop. I’d recommend this to anyone interested in novels about identity, the diaspora, assimilation or the impact of immigration. 5/5 ⭐️ #books #book #bookstagram #manbooker #bookerprize #nadeemaslam #britain #contemporarybritain #identitypolitics #diaspora #bookrecommendations #bookreview #bookreviews #mapsforlostlovers #honourkillings #contemporaryfiction #fiction https://www.instagram.com/p/CMxxVZ_lpVF/?igshid=1xsq76zr32f

From the winner of the Man Booker International Prize for "The Vegetarian". Both the most autobiographical and the most experimental book to date from South Korean master Han Kang. Written while on a writer's residency in Warsaw, a city palpably scarred by the violence of the past, the narrator finds herself haunted by the story of her older sister, who died a mere two hours after birth. A fragmented exploration of white things - the swaddling bands that were also her shroud, the breast milk she did not live to drink, the blank page on which the narrator herself attempts to reconstruct the story - unfold in a powerfully poetic distillation. As she walks the unfamiliar, snow-streaked streets, lined by buildings formerly obliterated in the Second World War, their identities blur and overlap as the narrator wonders, 'Can I give this life to you?'. The White Book is a book like no other. It is a meditation on a colour, on the tenacity and fragility of the human spirit, and our attempts to graft new life from the ashes of destruction. #HanKang #thewhitebook #southkorea #TheVegetarian #ManBooker #literature #books #lydiapsaradelli (στην τοποθεσία Athens, Greece) https://www.instagram.com/p/CKOR4soJ4LS/?igshid=vj0lvskjoz6e

“The lost sequence in a life, they say, is the thing we always search out.” Set in post-war London; about a young boy and his sister left by their parents in the care of an intriguing set of characters - all operating on the wrong side of the law, with involvements in intelligence gathering - about spies & subterfuge and what war does to people. This book could have been great just with that material; but it goes beyond - to become a story of loss, love, memory - real and imagined and about why it is impossible to truly separate the real from the imaginary. Above all - it is about how stories hold our lives together. #warlight #michaelondaatje #manbooker #kindle https://www.instagram.com/p/Bm-8gW9ngGj/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=dj13xtci46n9

But is it a good idea? #Sabrina #ManBookerPrize #manbooker #manbooker2018 #NickDrnaso #amreading

@vintagebooksdesign with The Dinner Guest has just been longlisted for the Man Booker International Prize 2018! Gabriela Ybarra’s debut book is a singular autobiographical novel piecing together the kidnap and murder of her grandfather by terrorists, reflecting on the personal impact of private pain and public tragedy. Designed in-house and available now. #thedinnerguest #bookdesign #graphicdesign #manbooker