Reading All the Bookers!

  Booker Prize:  Winner International Booker 2016 Plot Time and Place : Present day South Korea Opening sentence:   "Before my wife turned vegetarian, I'd always thought of her as completely unremarkable in every way". Plot summary : The story is about a woman who suddenly decides to stop eating meat. This generates a lot of conflicts with her family because, up until this point, she had always been a very passive, subservient person.  Review:  I really enjoyed this. The novel is divided into three parts. The first part is narrated by the protagonist, Yeong-hye's, husband. The second part is told from the point of view of Yeong-hye's brother-in-law. And the third part is told from her sister's point of view. So we almost never actually hear Yeong-hye's voice. In fact, she has no voice. She feels stifled by Korean social norms and everyday sexism. And refusing to eat meat is the way that she finds to take a stand, to fight back. Also the story includes some

BOOKER PRIZE WINNERS AND SHORTLISTED BOOKS FULL LIST  1969 -Something to answer for - PH Newby WINNER -Impossible Object - Nicholas Mosley -The public image - Muriel Spark  -Figures in a landscape - Barry England -The nice and the good - Iris Murdoch (BIB OUT) -From scenes like these - Gordon Williams 1970  -Eva Trout By Elizabeth Bowen -Bruno's Dream By Iris Murdoch  (BIB OUT) -Mrs Eckdorf in O'Neill's Hotel By William Trevor -The Conjunction By Terence Wheeler -The Elected Member By Bernice Rubens WINNER  -John Brown's Body By  A.L. Barker 1971 -In a Free State By V. S. Naipaul   WINNER   (BIB OUT) -The Big Chapel By Thomas Kilroy -Briefing for a Descent into Hell By Doris Lessing -St Urbain's Horseman By Mordecai Richler -Goshawk Squadron By Derek Robinson -Mrs Palfrey at the Claremont By Elizabeth Taylor  (BIB OR) 1972 -The Chant of Jimmie Blacksmith By Thomas Keneally -Pasmore By David Storey -G. By John Berger WINNER -The Bird of Night By Susan Hill 1973 -The

  Hi everyone!  My name is Susana, and I love reading.  I have decided to challenge myself and I am going to read all the Booker and International Booker Prize winners and shortlisted books.  I am not going to read the books in any particular order, and I haven't set a time frame to do it. It will take as long as it takes... Please visit this website for more information about the books and the Booker Prize: https://thebookerprizes.com And this gentleman was my inspiration: https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/the-man-whos-read-every-book-ever-shortlisted-for-the-booker-prize So, without further ado, let's start with the Booker Prize Reading List!