Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
By: Barry Unsworth
4.12
Format: 630 pages, Paperback
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with…
Want to Read $ 14.99"Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
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1. The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
By: Pankaj Mishra , J.G. Farrell
3.93
Format: 344 pages, Paperback
India, 1857--the year of the Great Mutiny, when Muslim soldiers turned in bloody rebellion on their… read more
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"The British could leave and half India wouldn't notice us leaving just as they didn't notice us arriving. All our reforms of administration might be reforms on the moon for all it has to do with them…"-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
"And as he dug, he wept. He saw Hari's animated face, and numberless dead men, and the hatred on the faces of the sepoys . . . and it suddenly seemed to him that he could see clearly the basis of all …"-Pankaj Mishra, The Siege of Krishnapur (Empire Trilogy, #2)
2. Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
By: Barry Unsworth
4.12
Format: 630 pages, Paperback
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with… read more
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"Only way to live here is day by day, same as anywhere."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"The successful cannot be unhappy -- it was a contradiction in terms."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Doubt is the ally of hope, not its enemy, and together they made all the blessing he had."-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
"Nothing a man suffers will prevent him from inflicting suffering on others. Indeed, it will teach him the way"-Barry Unsworth, Sacred Hunger (Sacred Hunger #1)
3. The Famished Road
By: Ben Okri
3.73
Format: 512 pages, Paperback
BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • A modern classic that reveals the tension between the land of the living, wit… read more
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"He danced there like an overturned centipede."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"It is not death that human beings are most afraid of, it is love."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"We must take an interest in politics. We must become spies on behalf of justice."-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
"I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squ…"-Ben Okri, The Famished Road
4. The Finkler Question
By: Howard Jacobson
2.83
Format: 307 pages, Hardcover
Julian Treslove, a professionally unspectacular and disappointed BBC worker, and Sam Finkler, a pop… read more
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"It's never over till it's over with a friend."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
"So many unhappy women out there. Such a sea of female misery."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
"At a certain age men began to shrink, and yet it was precisely at that age that their trousers became too short for them."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
"At any age there is future one doesn't have. Never enough life when you are happy, that was the thing. Never so much bliss that you can't take a little more."-Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question
5. The Gathering
By: Anne Enright
3.13
Format: 261 pages, Paperback
Anne Enright is a dazzling writer of international stature and one of Ireland’s most singular voice… read more
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"A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"the kind of person took milk in his tea on one day and decided against it on the next."-Anne Enright, The Gathering
"Jej błękit zajął miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostał tam do końca życia"-Anne Enright, The Gathering
6. The Inheritance of Loss
By: Kiran Desai
4.32
Format: 632 pages,
Kiran Desai's first novel, Hullabaloo in the Guava Orchard, was published to unanimous acclaim in o… read more
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7. Oscar and Lucinda
By: Peter Carey
4.75
Format: 335 pages, Paperback
Peter Carey's Booker Prize winning novel imagines Australia's youth, before its dynamic passions be… read more
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8. How Late it Was, How Late
By: James Kelman
3.50
Format: None pages, Paperback
One Sunday morning in Glasgow, shoplifting ex-con Sammy awakens in an alley, wearing another man's … read more
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9. Offshore
By: Penelope Fitzgerald
3.91
Format: 736 pages,
An alternative cover edition for this ISBN can be found On the Battersea Reach of the Thames, a m… read more
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10. G.
By: John Berger
3.89
Format: 197 pages, Paperback
In this luminous novel -- winner of Britain's prestigious Booker Prize -- John Berger relates the s… read more
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11. The Conservationist
By: Nadine Gordimer
3.92
Format: None pages, Paperback
Mehring is rich. He has all the privileges and possessions that South Africa has to offer, but his … read more
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12. The Bone People
By: Keri Hulme
3.51
Format: None pages,
In a tower on the New Zealand sea lives Kerewin Holmes, part Maori, part European, an artist estran… read more
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13. The Elected Member
By: Bernice Rubens
3.33
Format: None pages, Paperback
Norman is the clever one of a close-knit Jewish family in the East End of London. Infant prodigy; b… read more
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14. Rites of Passage (To the Ends of the Earth, #1)
By: William Golding
4.73
Format: None pages, Paperback
In the cabin of an ancient, stinking warship bound for Australia, a man writes a journal to enterta… read more
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15. The Ghost Road (Regeneration, #3)
By: Pat Barker
4.24
Format: 200 pages,
Winner of the Booker Prize, The Ghost Roadis the brilliant conclusion to Pat Barker's World War I f… read more
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16. The Old Devils
By: Kingsley Amis
4.57
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Malcolm, Peter and Charlie and their Soave-sodden wives have one ambition left in life: to drink Wa… read more
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17. In a Free State
By: V.S. Naipaul
3.76
Format: 336 pages, Paperback
No writer has rendered our boundariless, post-colonial world more acutely or prophetically than V. … read more
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18. Staying On
By: Paul Scott
3.78
Format: 320 pages, Paperback
Tusker and Lily Smalley stayed on in India. Given the chance to return 'home' when Tusker, once a C… read more
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19. Last Orders
By: Graham Swift
3.82
Format: 287 pages,
Four men once close to Jack Dodds, a London butcher, meet to carry out his peculiar last wish: to h… read more
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20. True History of the Kelly Gang
By: Peter Carey
3.87
Format: 334 pages,
"I lost my own father at 12 yr. of age and know what it is to be raised on lies and silences my dea… read more
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21. Heat and Dust
By: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
3.73
Format: 112 pages, Paperback
A profound and powerful novel, winner of the Booker Prize Set in colonial India during the 1920s, H… read more
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