— Man Booker Prize 29 Titles found
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Hopes and Impediments
Selected Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
One of most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming Eurocentrism in our appreciation of works of the imagination... Read more >
Selected Essays
Written by Chinua Achebe
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: September 1, 1990
Price: $14.00
One of most provocative and original voices in contemporary literature, Chinua Achebe here considers the place of literature and art in our society in a collection of essays spanning his best writing and lectures from the last twenty-three years. For Achebe, overcoming Eurocentrism in our appreciation of works of the imagination... Read more >
Purple Hibiscus
A Novel
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: September 14, 2004
Price: $14.95
Fifteen-year-old Kambili's world is circumscribed by the high walls and frangipani trees of her family compound. Her wealthy Catholic father, under whose shadow Kambili lives, while generous and politically active in the community, is repressive and fanatically religious at home.
When Nigeria begins to fall apart under a military coup, Kambili's father... Read more >
The Blind Assassin
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2001
Price: $15.00
The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister’s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Margaret Atwood
Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
On Sale: August 28, 2001
Price: $15.00
The Blind Assassin opens with these simple, resonant words: “Ten days after the war ended, my sister Laura drove a car off a bridge.” They are spoken by Iris, whose terse account of her sister’s death in 1945 is followed by an inquest report proclaiming the death accidental. But just as... Read more >
The Book of Evidence
Written by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $15.00
John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.
Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife... Read more >
Written by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 224 pages
On Sale: June 12, 2001
Price: $15.00
John Banville’s stunning powers of mimicry are brilliantly on display in this engrossing novel, the darkly compelling confession of an improbable murderer.
Freddie Montgomery is a highly cultured man, a husband and father living the life of a dissolute exile on a Mediterranean island. When a debt comes due and his wife... Read more >
The Sea
Written by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $13.95
****WINNER OF THE 2005 MAN BOOKER PRIZE****
Max is a middle-aged Englishman, a writer and self-described dilettante who has been supported by his wife's money. Now, after his wife's recent death, Max has gone back to the seaside town where he lived as a child—a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness... Read more >
Written by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: August 15, 2006
Price: $13.95
****WINNER OF THE 2005 MAN BOOKER PRIZE****
Max is a middle-aged Englishman, a writer and self-described dilettante who has been supported by his wife's money. Now, after his wife's recent death, Max has gone back to the seaside town where he lived as a child—a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness... Read more >
The Sea
Written by John Banville
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $25.95
****WINNER OF THE 2005 MAN BOOKER PRIZE****
Max is a middle-aged Englishman, a writer and self-described dilettante who has been supported by his wife's money. Now, after his wife's recent death, Max has gone back to the seaside town where he lived as a child—a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness... Read more >
Written by John Banville
Format: Hardcover, 208 pages
On Sale: November 1, 2005
Price: $25.95
****WINNER OF THE 2005 MAN BOOKER PRIZE****
Max is a middle-aged Englishman, a writer and self-described dilettante who has been supported by his wife's money. Now, after his wife's recent death, Max has gone back to the seaside town where he lived as a child—a retreat from the grief, anger, and numbness... Read more >
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Shroud
Written by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $13.00
One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton’s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville’s masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is... Read more >
Written by John Banville
Format: Trade Paperback, 272 pages
On Sale: June 8, 2004
Price: $13.00
One part Nietzsche, one part Humbert Humbert, and a soupcon of Milton’s Lucifer, Axel Vander, the dizzyingly unreliable narrator of John Banville’s masterful new novel, is very old, recently widowed, and the bearer of a fearsome reputation as a literary dandy and bully. A product of the Old World, he is... Read more >
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G.
A Novel
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 8, 1992
Price: $15.00
Winner of the Booker Prize
In this luminous novel--winner of Britain's prestigious Book Prize--Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what... Read more >
A Novel
Written by John Berger
Format: Trade Paperback, 336 pages
On Sale: January 8, 1992
Price: $15.00
Winner of the Booker Prize
In this luminous novel--winner of Britain's prestigious Book Prize--Berger relates the story of "G.," a young man forging an energetic sexual career in Europe during the early years of this century. With profound compassion, Berger explores the hearts and minds of both men and women, and what... Read more >
Hotel Du Lac
Written by Anita Brookner
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $13.95
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her... Read more >
Written by Anita Brookner
Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
On Sale: October 3, 1995
Price: $13.95
In the novel that won her the Booker Prize and established her international reputation, Anita Brookner finds a new vocabulary for framing the eternal question "Why love?" It tells the story of Edith Hope, who writes romance novels under a psudonym. When her life begins to resemble the plots of her... Read more >
Possession
A Romance
Written by A.S. Byatt
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of England's Booker Prize, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals... Read more >
A Romance
Written by A.S. Byatt
Format: Trade Paperback, 576 pages
On Sale: October 1, 1991
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Booker Prize
Winner of England's Booker Prize, Possession is an exhilarating novel of wit and romance, at once an intellectual mystery and a triumphant love story. It is the tale of a pair of young scholars researching the lives of two Victorian poets. As they uncover their letters, journals... Read more >
Oscar and Lucinda
movie tie-in edition
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Booker Prize
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions... Read more >
movie tie-in edition
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 11, 1997
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Booker Prize
This sweeping, irrepressibly inventive novel, is a romance, but a romance of the sort that could only take place in nineteenth-century Australia. For only on that sprawling continent--a haven for misfits of both the animal and human kingdoms--could a nervous Anglican minister who gambles on the instructions... Read more >
True History of the Kelly Gang
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $14.95
Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize
Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also—at a distance of many thousand miles... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Peter Carey
Format: Trade Paperback, 384 pages
On Sale: December 4, 2001
Price: $14.95
Winner of the 2001 Booker Prize
Out of nineteenth-century Australia rides a hero of his people and a man for all nations, in this masterpiece by the Booker Prize-winning author of Oscar and Lucinda and Jack Maggs. Exhilarating, hilarious, panoramic, and immediately engrossing, it is also—at a distance of many thousand miles... Read more >
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Reading in the Dark
A Novel
Written by Seamus Deane
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 24, 1998
Price: $13.95
A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize
Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award
“A swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking. If Issac Babel had been born in Derry, he might have written this sudden... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Seamus Deane
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 24, 1998
Price: $13.95
A New York Times Notable Book
Winner of the Guardian Fiction Prize
Winner of the Irish Times Fiction Award and International Award
“A swift and masterful transformation of family griefs and political violence into something at once rhapsodic and heartbreaking. If Issac Babel had been born in Derry, he might have written this sudden... Read more >
The Northern Clemency
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2008
Price: $26.95
From the author of The Mulberry Empire: a new novel of great dramatic and emotional depth—a sweeping, powerfully engaging story of ordinary lives that are profoundly shaped by the larger forces of history.
In 1974, the Sellers are transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in... Read more >
Written by Philip Hensher
Format: Hardcover, 608 pages
On Sale: October 22, 2008
Price: $26.95
From the author of The Mulberry Empire: a new novel of great dramatic and emotional depth—a sweeping, powerfully engaging story of ordinary lives that are profoundly shaped by the larger forces of history.
In 1974, the Sellers are transplanted from London to Sheffield in northern England. On the day they move in... Read more >
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Never Let Me Go
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >
The Remains of the Day
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $14.95
Winner of the Booker Prize
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over... Read more >
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $14.95
Winner of the Booker Prize
The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over... Read more >
Amsterdam
A Novel
Written by Ian McEwan
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $13.95
Coming soon in paperback. Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. The best-selling author of Enduring Love returns with Amsterdam, sure to be his most playful and wickedly disarming novel to date. When two old friends meet again at a mutual lover's funeral, the exchange that occurs sets off a series of... Read more >
A Novel
Written by Ian McEwan
Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
On Sale: November 2, 1999
Price: $13.95
Coming soon in paperback. Winner of the 1998 Booker Prize. The best-selling author of Enduring Love returns with Amsterdam, sure to be his most playful and wickedly disarming novel to date. When two old friends meet again at a mutual lover's funeral, the exchange that occurs sets off a series of... Read more >
The Emperor's Children
Written by Claire Messud
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $25.00
From a writer “of near-miraculous perfection” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor’s Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties... Read more >
Written by Claire Messud
Format: Hardcover, 448 pages
On Sale: August 29, 2006
Price: $25.00
From a writer “of near-miraculous perfection” (The New York Times Book Review) and “a literary intelligence far surpassing most other writers of her generation” (San Francisco Chronicle), The Emperor’s Children is a dazzling, masterful novel about the intersections in the lives of three friends, now on the cusp of their thirties... Read more >
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Family Matters
Written by Rohinton Mistry
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2003
Price: $15.95
Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and... Read more >
Written by Rohinton Mistry
Format: Trade Paperback, 448 pages
On Sale: November 18, 2003
Price: $15.95
Rohinton Mistry’s enthralling novel is at once a domestic drama and an intently observed portrait of present-day Bombay in all its vitality and corruption. At the age of seventy-nine, Nariman Vakeel, already suffering from Parkinson’s disease, breaks an ankle and finds himself wholly dependent on his family. His step-children, Coomy and... Read more >
In a Free State
A Novel
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $13.95
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives.
In... Read more >
A Novel
Written by V.S. Naipaul
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: February 12, 2002
Price: $13.95
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. S. Naipaul, or given its upheavals such a hauntingly human face. A perfect case in point is this riveting novel, a masterful and stylishly rendered narrative of emigration, dislocation, and dread, accompanied by four supporting narratives.
In... Read more >
The Famished Road
Written by Ben Okri
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1993
Price: $15.95
Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize. Set in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, this rich, phantasmagorical novel follows Azaro, a "spirit-child" who has reneged on a pact with the spirit world.
"A dazzling achievement for any writer in any language."
—The New York Times Book Review
"A masterpiece... Read more >
Written by Ben Okri
Format: Trade Paperback, 512 pages
On Sale: May 1, 1993
Price: $15.95
Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize. Set in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, this rich, phantasmagorical novel follows Azaro, a "spirit-child" who has reneged on a pact with the spirit world.
"A dazzling achievement for any writer in any language."
—The New York Times Book Review
"A masterpiece... Read more >
The English Patient
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Booker Prize
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, The English Patientl traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English... Read more >
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: Trade Paperback, 320 pages
On Sale: November 30, 1993
Price: $15.95
Winner of the Booker Prize
With ravishing beauty and unsettling intelligence, The English Patientl traces the intersection of four damaged lives in an Italian villa at the end of World War II. Hana, the exhausted nurse; the maimed thief, Caravaggio; the wary sapper, Kip: each is haunted by the riddle of the English... Read more >
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The English Patient
Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
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Written by Michael Ondaatje
Format: Hardcover, 320 pages
On Sale: September 29, 1992
Price: $29.95
Read more >
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Crossing the River
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $14.00
This is Phillips' acclaimed and intensely moving evocation of the African Diaspora. It begins in a year of failing crops, which forces a father to sell his children into slavery. Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830's; a pioneer woman seeking refuge... Read more >
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
On Sale: January 15, 1995
Price: $14.00
This is Phillips' acclaimed and intensely moving evocation of the African Diaspora. It begins in a year of failing crops, which forces a father to sell his children into slavery. Phillips's characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830's; a pioneer woman seeking refuge... Read more >
A Distant Shore
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips... Read more >
Written by Caryl Phillips
Format: Trade Paperback, 288 pages
On Sale: March 8, 2005
Price: $14.95
Dorothy is a retired schoolteacher who has recently moved to a housing estate in a small village. Solomon is a night-watchman, an immigrant from an unnamed country in Africa. Each is desperate for love. And yet each harbors secrets that may make attaining it impossible.
With breathtaking assurance and compassion, Caryl Phillips... Read more >
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