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The Booker Prize Is Tuesday. Which of These 6 Novels Should Win?
Percival Everett’s “James” is favorite for the prestigious literary award. But the likes of Rachel Kushner’s “Creation Lake” or Samantha Harvey’s “Orbital” could take the prize instead.
A tale of erotic obsession that gradually becomes a story about the Holocaust. A novel set aboard a space station. A book set in a convent that experiences a plague of mice.
All three are among the six titles nominated for this year’s Booker Prize, the prestigious literary award, whose winner is set to be announced on Tuesday in London.
Past winners have included Yann Martel’s “Life of Pi,” Salman Rushdie’s “Midnight’s Children” and Margaret Atwood’s “The Blind Assassin.”
Which of these six contenders most deserves to be added to that illustrious list? Share your thoughts in the comments.
‘James’ by Percival Everett
The favorite for this year’s prize, according to British bookmakers, “James” is a retelling of Mark Twain’s “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” from the perspective of the Black man fleeing enslavement in Twain’s novel.
