The Bookers, digested
As you may or may not have heard, this year’s winner of the Man Booker Prize will be announced today. To bring busy would-be readers up to speed, The Guardian has a special Booker edition of its “Digested Reads” feature, in which all six shortlisted books are rewritten in the styles of the originals, but in extremely condensed form.
Our personal favourite has to be the digested version of The Inheritance of Loss, the portentously titled novel by Kiran Desai. It begins thus:
The description of the mist moving like a water creature across the great flanks of the Himalayas possessed of ocean shadows and depths told Sai that she had inadvertently found her way into a lyrical evocation of post- colonial multiculturalism. She picked up a copy of National Geographic. “That should add a nice post-modern ironic nod to globalisation,” she reckoned.
[Note: digested reads of the Giller prize shortlist — or of any other new Canadian book, for that matter — would be enthusiastically welcomed in the comment section below.]
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