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Booker Prize for Fiction

Literary prize awarded each year for the best original novel written in the English language and published in the United Kingdom.

Winner

Rites of Passage by William Golding

Rites of Passage by William Golding
Call Number: Fiction G6185r (Adult Fiction)

ISBN: 9780374250867

Publication Date: 1980-11-01

Edmund Talbot, passenger on a ship in the Napoleonic era, chronicles its highly symbolic voyage, observing the rites of life in the shipboard societyin-miniature.

Shortlist

Clear Light of Day [Kindle] by Anita Desai
Call Number: Kindle-0508

ISBN: 9780099276180

Publication Date: 2001

To the family living in a shabby, dusty house in Delhi, Tara's visit brings a sharp reminder of life outside tradition. For Bim coping endlessly with their problems, there is renewal of the old jealousies for, unlike her sister, she has failed to escape.

Longlist

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