Annal:1993 Man Booker Prize for Fiction
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Results of the Man Booker Prize in the year 1993. For a ranked list of books, try an honor roll:
- 1993 Booker winner
- Score: 10.43
It is 1968. Patrick Clarke is ten. He loves George Best, Geronimo, and the smell of his hot water bottle. He hates zoos, kissing, and the boys from the Corporation houses. He can’t stand his little brother Sinbad. He wants to be a missionary like Father Damien, and he coerces the McCarthy twins and Willy Hancock into playing lepers. He never picks the scabs off his knees before they’re ready. Kevin is his best friend. Their names are all over Barrytown, written with sticks in wet cement. They play football, knickknack, jumping to the bottom of the sea. They…
Under the Frog: A Novel
- 1993 Booker shortlist
- Score: 6.43
Under the Frog follows the adventures of two young Hungarian basketball players through the turbulent years between the end of World War II and the anti-Soviet uprising of 1956. In this spirited indictment of totalitarianism, the two improbable heroes, Pataki and Gyuri, travel the length and breadth of Hungary in an epic quest for food, lodging, and female companionship.
- 1993 Booker shortlist
- Score: 6.43
At the heart of Michael Ignatieff’s riveting novel about a woman’s descent into neurological illness are the tangled threads of a Midwestern family, frayed by time and tragedy yet still connected—as much by pride, embarrassed love, and sibling rivalry as by the painful ties of familial loyalty.
A philosophy professor watches helplessly as his mother sinks into the mysterious depths of an unknown illness. His efforts to understand her gradual deterioration—from innocently misplaced eyeglasses and endlessly repeated anecdotes to a total loss of identity—lead him…
- 1996 IMPAC Dublin winner
- 1994 LATimes–Fiction winner
- 1993 Booker shortlist
- Score: 26.46
In Remembering Babylon David Malouf gives us a rich and compelling novel, in language of astonishing poise and resonance, about the settling of the continent down under, Australia, and the vicissitudes of first contact with the unknown. In the mid-1840s a thirteen-year-old cabin boy, Gemmy Fairley, is cast ashore from a British shipwreck onto the Queensland coast, and is taken in by aborigines. Sixteen years later, three children from a white settlement come upon this apparition: “The stick-like legs, all knobbed at the joints, suggested a wounded…
- 1993 JT Black-Fiction winner
- 1993 Booker shortlist
- Score: 16.43
From the acclaimed author of Cambridge comes an ambitious, formally inventive, and intensely moving evocation of the scattered offspring of Africa. It begins in a year of failing crops and desperate foolishness, which forces a father to sell his three children into slavery. Employing a brilliant range of voices and narrative techniques, Caryl Phillips folows these exiles across the river that separates continents and centuries.
Phillips’s characters include a freed slave who journeys to Liberia as a missionary in the 1830s; a pioneer woman seeking…
- 1995 Pulitzer–fiction winner
- 1994 NBCC–Fiction winner
- 1993 Governor General's winner
- 1993 Booker shortlist
- Score: 36.45
The Stone Diaries is the story of one woman’s life; a truly sensuous novel that reflects and illuminates the unsettled decades of our century.
Born in 1905, Daisy Goodwill drifts through the chapters of childhood, marriage, widowhood, remarriage, motherhood and old age. Bewildered by her inability to understand her own role, Daisy attempts to find a way to tell her own story within a novel that is itself about the limitations of autobiography.
