From a longlist of 13, six novels have been shortlisted for the 2024 Booker prize. Our academics review the finalists.

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He came to loathe conventional realistic fiction: “It used modes of response to the world that had become stultified… I learned my realism from guys like Kafka.” His first novel, The Origin ...

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She is also a musician, and interested in visual art. Her best known novel, The Vegetarian (published in Korea in 2007), was her first to be translated into English, in 2015. It won the Man Booker ...

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