![]() ![]() Irish novelist Rónán Hession describes Everett as “either the funniest serious writer I’ve ever read, or the most serious funny writer,” which is about right. To sum up The Trees, imagine Jordan Peele writing a spin-off of Fargo. My top two from this year’s shortlist were The Trees by Percival Everett and Oh, William! by Elizabeth Strout. But if you are looking to dive into some of the titles, here are my thoughts on the other shortlisted books, and my favourites from the overall longlist. Reading from any book prize is going to be a mixed bag, given you’re reading the favourite books of several different people. This year, I read all of the Booker Prize shortlisted books, and the majority of the longlist. Written in the second person, it truly embraces an out-of-body experience, right down to the skeleton of its sentence structure. Once a war photographer, he finds it disorientating to meet the dying people he used to capture images of, now completely unsure of the meaning of life. ![]() Set in Sri Lanka in the 1990s, it takes inspiration from A Christmas Carol, as the titular character Maali wanders through the afterlife, trying to work out how he died. ![]() On 17 October, Shehan Karunatilaka was crowned winner of this year’s Booker Prize for his novel The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. ![]()
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