27. julija je žirija objavila seznam nominirancev za bookerja 2016. Zamujam, ker sem na datum objave tradicionalno obdan z zborčkom škržatov, ki mi pojejo večno slavo.
Bookerjev ducat trinajstih:
- Paul Beatty (US) - The Sellout (Oneworld)
- J. M. Coetzee (South African-Australian) - The Schooldays of Jesus (Harvill Secker)
- A. L. Kennedy (UK) - Serious Sweet (Jonathan Cape)
- Deborah Levy (UK) - Hot Milk (Hamish Hamilton)
- Graeme Macrae Burnet (UK) - His Bloody Project (Contraband)
- Ian McGuire (UK) - The North Water (Scribner UK)
- David Means (US) - Hystopia (Faber & Faber)
- Wyl Menmuir (UK) -The Many (Salt)
- Ottessa Moshfegh (US) - Eileen (Jonathan Cape)
- Virginia Reeves (US) - Work Like Any Other (Scribner UK)
- Elizabeth Strout (US) - My Name Is Lucy Barton (Viking)
- David Szalay (Canada-UK) - All That Man Is (Jonathan Cape)
- Madeleine Thien (Canada) - Do Not Say We Have Nothing(Granta Books)
Začel sem brati Burnetov His Bloody Project. Začetek je prepričljiv, kar me skupaj z nekaterimi drobci iz izjav žirije navdaja s krhkim, a verjetno naivnim upanjem, da gre letos za dober izbor.
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