It moves seamlessly between the epic and the intimate - one moment you're in looking at the vast sweep of the desert and the next moment watching a nurse place a piece of plum in a patient's mouth". Judge Kamila Shamsie, who chose The English Patient as her winner from the 1990s, said it "is that rare novel which gets under your skin and insists you return to it time and again, always yielding a new surprise or delight. Naipaul Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel and Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders. Publishers should take heed, never underestimate the general reading public.Īlso shortlisted for the Golden Booker were: In a Free State by V. In the case of The English Patient, a poet's novel written with devastating imagery and a complex narrative structure, the widest possible range of readers have engaged with an intense literary novel which makes a bow to Emily Bronte's Wuthering Heights as well as Lawrence Durrell's Alexandria quartet and the great Paul Scott. Yet again Man Booker’s innovative flair, which has driven this always intriguing, at times infuriating and rarely boring showcasing of a diverse range of novels written by an equally diverse range of English-language writers, has achieved its goal – generating interest in fiction.
Victory for Michael Ondaatje's seductive war time thriller, The English Patient, over five of his fellow Booker and Man Booker winners spanning five decades, is not only a popular outcome – it was after all decided by public vote – it is an overwhelming endorsement of literary fiction. Beauty and doomed romance has decided the Golden Man Booker.
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