Annal:1992 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
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Results of the Man Booker Prize in the year 1992. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1992 Booker winner
- 1992 Governor General's winner
- Score: 20.42
During the final moments of World War II, in a deserted Italian villa, four people come together: a young nurse, her will broken, all her energy focused on her last, dying patient, a man in whom she has seen something “she wanted to learn, to grow into and hide in”; an unknown Englishman, survivor of a plane crash, his mind awash with a life’s worth of secrets and passions; a thief whose “skills” have made him one of the war’s heroes, and one of its casualties; an Indian soldier in the British army, an expert at bomb disposal who believes “the only thing safe is himself.”
- 1992 Booker winner
- Score: 10.42
Sacred Hunger is a stunning and engrossing exploration of power, domination, and greed. Filled with the “sacred hunger” to expand its empire and its profits, England entered full into the slave trade and spread the trade throughout its colonies. Barry Unsworth follows the failing fortunes of William Kemp, a merchant pinning his last chance to a slave ship; his son who needs a fortune because he is in love with an upper-class woman; and his nephew who sails on the ship as its doctor because he has lost all he has loved. The voyage meets its demise when…
- 1992 Booker shortlist
- Score: 6.42
Old Max, the giant of Serenity House, North London’s “Premier Eventide Refuge”, might have been left to die in peace. But his son-in-law Albert, an MP with an interest in the new War Crimes Bill, has other ideas.
- 1994 Stoker–Novel nominee
- 1992 Booker shortlist
- Score: 12.44
“When I was a young lad twenty or thirty or forty years ago I lived in a small town where they were all after me on account of what I done on Mrs. Nugent.”
Thus begins Patrick McCabe’s shattering novel The Butcher Boy, a powerful and unrelenting journey into the heart of darkness. The bleak, eerie voice belongs to Francie Brady, the “pig boy,” the only child of and alcoholic father and a mother driven mad by despair. Growing up in a soul-stifling Irish town, Francie is bright, love-starved, and unhinged, his speech filled with street talk, his heart…
- 1992 Booker shortlist
- Score: 6.42
In 1946, a young couple set off on their honeymoon. Fired by their ideals and passion for one another, they plan an idyllic holiday, only to encounter an experience of darkness so terrifying it alters their lives forever. In this highly praised national bestseller, Ian McEwan has written his most humane and compelling novel to date.
Daughters of the House: A Novel
- 1992 Booker shortlist
- Score: 6.42
Daughters of the House is Michèle Roberts’s acclaimed novel of secrets and lies revealed in the aftermath of World War II. Thérèse and Léonie, French and English cousins of the same age, grow up together in Normandy. Intrigued by parents’ and servants’ guilty silences and the broken shrine they find in the woods, the girls weave their own elaborate fantasies, unwittingly revealing the village secret and a deep shame that will haunt them in their adult lives.
