Вручение 26 ноября 2023 г.

На конкурс премии были представлены книги на 11 языках из 12 стран. Помимо наиболее часто переводимых французского и немецкого, в лонге присутствовали три, которые никогда не появлялись: болгарский, каталонский и тамильский.

Разница в возрасте между самым молодым и самым возрастным номинантами составляла 54 года. Самая пожилая 89-летняя Мариз Конде — вообще старейший человек за всю историю премии, самая молодая писательница — 35-летняя Аманда Свенссон, самый молодой переводчик — 24-летний Рубен Вулли.

Страна: Великобритания Место проведения: город Лондон Дата проведения: 26 ноября 2023 г.

Букеровская премия

Лауреат
Песнь пророка
Пол Линч 3.8
Однажды вечером микробиолог Айлиш Стэк, мать четверых детей, отвечает на стук в дверь. На пороге — двое оперативников свежеобразованной Государственной службы национальной безопасности, которые хотели бы поговорить с мужем Айлиш, активистом учительского профсоюза. А после демонстрации протеста ее муж пропадает — и Айлиш оказывается в плену логики кошмара: общественные институты рассыпаются на глазах, правительство превратило тихий пригород в зону боевых действий, и, чтобы спасти семью, Айлиш вынуждена решиться на невозможное…
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Study for Obedience
Sarah Bernstein 3.3
A woman moves from the place of her birth to a remote northern country to be housekeeper to her brother, whose wife has just left him. The youngest child of many siblings - more than she cares to remember - from earliest childhood she has attended to their every desire, smoothed away the slightest discomfort with perfect obedience, with the highest degree of devotion. The country, it transpires, is the country of their family's ancestors, an obscure though reviled people.

Soon after she arrives, a series of unfortunate events occurs - collective bovine hysteria; the demise of a ewe and her nearly-born lamb; a local dog's phantom pregnancy; the containment of domestic fowl; a potato blight. She notices that the local suspicion about incomers in general seems to be directed particularly in her case. What is clear is that she is being accused of wrongdoing, but in a language she cannot understand and so cannot address. And however diligently and silently she toils in service of the community, still she feels their hostility growing, pressing at the edges of her brother's property.

Inside the house, although she tends to her brother and his home with the utmost care and attention, he too begins to fall ill...
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If I Survive You
Джонатан Эскоффери 4.0
If I Survive You is a collection of connected short stories that reads like a novel, that reads like real life, that reads like fiction written at the highest level. --Ann Patchett, author of The Dutch House

Kaleidoscopic, urgent, hilarious, revelatory and like nothing you've read before. --Marlon James, author of Moon Witch, Spider King

A major debut, blazing with style and heart, that follows a Jamaican family striving for more in Miami, and introduces a generational storyteller.



In the 1970s, Topper and Sanya flee to Miami as political violence consumes their native Kingston. But America, as the couple and their two children learn, is far from the promised land. Excluded from society as Black immigrants, the family pushes on through Hurricane Andrew and later the 2008 recession, living in a house so cursed that the pet fish launches itself out of its own tank rather than stay. But even as things fall apart, the family remains motivated, often to its own detriment, by what their younger son, Trelawny, calls "the exquisite, racking compulsion to survive."

Masterfully constructed with heart and humor, the linked stories in Jonathan Escoffery's If I Survive You center on Trelawny as he struggles to carve out a place for himself amid financial disaster, racism, and flat-out bad luck. After a fight with Topper--himself reckoning with his failures as a parent and his longing for Jamaica--Trelawny claws his way out of homelessness through a series of odd, often hilarious jobs. Meanwhile, his brother, Delano, attempts a disastrous cash grab to get his kids back, and his cousin, Cukie, looks for a father who doesn't want to be found. As each character searches for a foothold, they never forget the profound danger of climbing without a safety net.

Pulsing with vibrant lyricism and inimitable style, sly commentary and contagious laughter, Escoffery's debut unravels what it means to be in between homes and cultures in a world at the mercy of capitalism and whiteness. With If I Survive You, Escoffery announces himself as a prodigious storyteller in a class of his own, a chronicler of American life at its most gruesome and hopeful.
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This Other Eden
Paul Harding 4.5
A novel inspired by the true story of the once racially integrated Malaga Island off the coast of Maine, by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Tinkers.

In 1792, formerly enslaved Benjamin Honey and his Irish wife, Patience, discovered an island where they could make a life together. More than a century later, the Honeys’ descendants remain there, with an eccentric, diverse band of neighbors: a pair of sisters raising three Penobscot orphans; Theophilus and Candace Larks and their nocturnal brood; the prophetic Zachary Hand To God Proverbs, a Civil War veteran who carves Biblical images in a hollow tree. Then comes the intrusion of “civilization”: eugenics-minded state officials determine to cleanse” the island, and a missionary schoolteacher selects one light-skinned boy to save. The rest will succumb to the authorities’ institutions or cast themselves on the waters in a new Noah’s Ark.

Full of lyricism and power, This Other Eden explores the hopes and dreams and resilience of those seen not to fit a world brutally intolerant of difference.
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Western Lane
Chetna Maroo 3.4
A taut, enthralling first novel about grief, sisterhood, and a young athlete‘s struggle to transcend herself.

Eleven-year-old Gopi has been playing squash since she was old enough to hold a racket. When her mother dies, her father enlists her in a quietly brutal training regimen, and the game becomes her world. Slowly, she grows apart from her sisters. Her life is reduced to the sport, guided by its rhythms: the serve, the volley, the drive, the shot and its echo.

But on the court, she is not alone. She is with her pa. She is with Ged, a thirteen-year-old boy with his own formidable talent. She is with the players who have come before her. She is in awe.

An indelible coming-of-age story, Chetna Maroo’s first novel captures the ordinary and annihilates it with beauty. Western Lane is a valentine to innocence, to the closeness of sisterhood, to the strange ways we come to know ourselves and each other.
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The Bee Sting
Пол Мюррей 4.2
Irresistibly funny, wise and thought-provoking - a tragicomic tour de force about family, fortune, and the struggle to be a good person when the world is falling apart...

The Barnes family is in trouble. Dickie's once-lucrative car business is going under - but rather than face the music, he's spending his days in the woods, building an apocalypse-proof bunker with a renegade handyman. His wife Imelda is selling off her jewellery on eBay while their teenage daughter Cass, formerly top of her class, seems determined to binge-drink her way to her final exams. And twelve-year-old PJ is putting the final touches to his grand plan to run away from home.

Where did it all go wrong? A patch of ice on the tarmac, a casual favour to a charming stranger, a bee caught beneath a bridal veil - can a single moment of bad luck change the direction of a life? And if the story has already been written - is there still time to find a happy ending?
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In Ascension
Мартин Макиннес 5.0
Leigh grew up in Rotterdam, drawn to the waterfront as an escape from her unhappy home life and volatile father. Enchanted by the undersea world of her childhood, she excels in marine biology, travelling the globe to study ancient organisms. When a trench is discovered in the Atlantic ocean, Leigh joins the exploration team, hoping to find evidence of the earth's first life forms - what she instead finds calls into question everything we know about our own beginnings.

Her discovery leads Leigh to the Mojave desert and an ambitious new space agency. Drawn deeper into the agency's work, she learns that the Atlantic trench is only one of several related phenomena from across the world, each piece linking up to suggest a pattern beyond human understanding. Leigh knows that to continue working with the agency will mean leaving behind her declining mother and her younger sister, and faces an impossible choice: to remain with her family, or to embark on a journey across the breadth of the cosmos.

Exploring the natural world with the wonder and reverence we usually reserve for the stars, In Ascension is a compassionate, deeply inquisitive epic that reaches outward to confront the greatest questions of existence, looks inward to illuminate the smallest details of the human heart, and shows how - no matter how far away we might be and how much we have lost hope - we will always attempt to return to the people and places we call home.
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Маленькие птичьи сердца
Виктория Ллойд-Барлоу 4.1
Сандей живёт в небольшом городке. Ей сложно общаться с людьми, поэтому она ищет подсказки, как вести беседы и принимать гостей, в справочнике по этикету и сицилийском фольклоре. Близкие отношения у неё лишь с дочерью, но Долли уже шестнадцать, она вот-вот выпорхнет из гнезда, и Сандей заранее переживает об этом. Когда рядом поселяется гламурная лондонская пара Вита и Ролло, которая обезоруживает своим обаянием, её тревога только нарастает. Долли всё чаще задерживается у них в гостях, забывая предупредить мать, всё реже делится с ней секретами, всё более странно ведёт себя. Сандей всё больше беспокоит вопрос: что кроется за фасадом красивой жизни лондонской пары? Это пронзительная история о родительстве, одиночестве и о том, что цена доверия между людьми всегда высока.
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Перл
Шан Хьюз 3.9
Лиричный, наполненный эмоциями роман о семейном счастье, родительско-детской любви и преодолении травмы.

Исчезновение близкого меняет не только настоящее и будущее, но и прошлое человека. Марианне было всего восемь, когда ее мать пропала, и воспоминания о солнечном саде, прогулках и ароматных пирогах будто померкли. Действительно ли жизнь их семьи была так безоблачна, если однажды мама просто вышла из дома и не вернулась? Этот вопрос мучит Марианну, ответ на него она ищет в старом доме и на берегу реки, у отца, соседей, в средневековой поэзии. Ищет ребенком, трудным подростком и взрослой женщиной, сама уже став матерью. Существует ли чудо, которое поможет ей вернуть себе счастливое прошлое, а вместе с ним изменить будущее?
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How to Build a Boat
Элейн Фини 2.3
Jamie O'Neill loves the colour red. He also loves tall trees, patterns, rain that comes with wind, the curvature of many objects, books with dust jackets, cats, rivers and Edgar Allan Poe. At age 13 there are two things he especially wants in life: to build a Perpetual Motion Machine, and to connect with his mother Noelle, who died when he was born. In his mind these things are intimately linked. And at his new school, where all else is disorientating and overwhelming, he finds two people who might just be able to help him.

How to Build a Boat is the story of how one boy and his mission transforms the lives of his teachers, Tess and Tadhg, and brings together a community. Written with tenderness and verve, it's about love, family and connection, the power of imagination, and how our greatest adventures never happen alone.
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Время старого бога
Себастьян Барри 3.9
Полицейский Том Кеттл почти год назад вышел на пенсию и обосновался в съемной квартирке, расположенной в пристройке викторианского замка, с видом на Ирландское море. Долгие месяцы он ни с кем не разговаривал, да почти и не видел никого, разве что мельком — своего эксцентричного домовладельца и нервную молодую мать, недавно вселившуюся в соседнюю квартиру. Жизнь Тома осталась в прошлом, он живет, не различая реальности и воспоминаний — о любимой жене Джун, дочери Винни и сыне Джо. Они приходят ему и в снах, и наяву. Том ничего не ждет, ему достаточно глядеть в окно на пикирующую чайку, пить чай и вспоминать-вспоминать.

Но однажды на его пороге объявляется парочка бывших коллег, желающих расспросить о деле десятилетней давности, так и оставшемся нераскрытым, с чем Том не смог смириться. И в настоящее Тома врываются темные завихрения его прошлого, которое он постарался забыть.

Блестяще написанный, идеально выстроенный, завораживающий роман, в котором тайна кроется в каждом абзаце, где все не то, чем кажется поначалу. «Время старого Бога» — о том, что мы пережили, в чем живем сейчас и что будет жить после нас.
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A Spell of Good Things
Айобами Адебайо 4.0
After a government edict cut his father's job, Eniola's family has been struggling to survive. His secondary school teachers beat him because of his unpaid fees, and his parents are behind on the rent and cannot pay for his apprenticeship at a tailoring shop. Nevertheless, he strives to make himself useful, folding wrappers and trying to forget about how he's taunted by schoolmates.

Wuraola, the daughter of the tailoring shop's most valued customer, is an exhausted young doctor who can barely catch any sleep as she works long hours in a public hospital. After her boyfriend proposes, their relationship accelerates towards marriage even as his darker side is exposed, risking her family's spell of good things.

Meanwhile, Eniola becomes caught in a tangle of decisions that will bring him into collision with political forces in the city, and harm his family and Wuraola's in the process. Following the lives of Eniola, Wuraola and their relatives, the novel traces the entwined fates of two families in a Nigerian city, one with all the fortune in the world and one that cannot catch a break.
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