Past Man Booker Prize Winners & Finalists (1982)

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1982
Book Cover	Book Details	Synopsis	TBS Rank
1982 Winner	Schindler's Ark (or Schindler's Ark in the United States) by Thomas Keneally Publisher: Stoughton ISBN: 0671516884	A stunning novel based on the true story of how German war profiteer and prison camp direktor Oskar Schindler came to save more Jews from the gas chambers than any other single person during World War II. In this milestone of Holocaust literature, Thomas Keneally uses the actual testimony of the Schindlerjuden— Schindler's Jew s— to brilliantly portray the courage and cunning of a good man in the midst of unspeakable evil.	1
	Silence Among the Weapons by John Arden Publisher: Methuen ISBN: 0413496708
	An Ice-Cream War byWilliam Boyd Publisher: Hamish Hamilton ISBN: 0375705023	"Rich in character and incident, An Ice-Cream War fulfills the ambition of the historical novel at its best." -- The New York Times Book Review Booker Prize Finalist "Boyd has more than fulfilled the bright promise of [his] first novel. . . . He is capable not only of some very funny satire but also of seriousness and compassion." --Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times 1914. In a hotel room in German East Africa , American farmer Walter Smith dreams of Theodore Roosevelt. As he sleeps, a railway passenger swats at flies, regretting her decision to return to the Dark Continent --and to her husband. On a faraway English riverbank, a jealous Felix Cobb watches his brother swim, and curses his sister-in-law-to-be. And in the background of the world's daily chatter: rumors of an Anglo-German conflict, the likes of which no one has ever seen. In An Ice-Cream War , William Boyd brilliantly evokes the private dramas of a generation upswept by the winds of war. After his German neighbor burns his crops--with an apology and a smile--Walter Smith takes up arms on behalf of Great Britain . And when Felix's brother marches off to defend British East Africa , he pursues, against his better judgment, a forbidden love affair. As the sons of the world match wits and weapons on a continent thousands of miles from home, desperation makes bedfellows of enemies and traitors of friends and family. By turns comic and quietly wise, An Ice-Cream War deftly renders lives capsized by violence, chance, and the irrepressible human capacity for love.
	Constance or Solitary Practices by Lawrence Durrell Publisher: Faber & Faber ISBN: 0773720022	The party is over, and the world is in the throes of the 1939-45 war, but the story continues as patterns set in Monsieur and Livia are developed against a background which shifts between Cairo , Geneva , and Avignon . The idyllic last summer of Livia seems now forever in the past, like some lost Garden of Eden…but figures from other times and other places loom up—sometimes disconcertingly—in the twilight zone between the real and imagined worlds: Constance herself, professionally expert in Freudian analysis, but discovering passion for the first time; her tragic, doomed sister Livia; the mercurial Prince Hassad; shaggy, lumbering Rob Sutcliffe, who here at last comes face to face with his creator, Aubrey Blanford, in a significant encounter. Constance is the third to appear of Lawrence Durrell's quincunx of novels, and in it he takes one stage further his exploration of the relationships between the novelist and his medium, and between his characters and the themes upon which they are variations. As the design of the whole work becomes clear it's characteristic qualities of expression and structure suggest an artistic achievement likely to match that of The Alexandria Quartet, with which the time scheme and the Egyptian sequences of the present volume form a link. Certainly the pleasures offered to the reader, new to the work or not, match the reputation of its author.	2
	The 27th Kingdom by Alice Thomas Ellis Publisher: Duckworth ISBN: 0140067043	For those who have no idea, the 27 th Kingdom is located in Chelsea , where Aunt Irene lives in a cozy, cluttered ménage with Kyril, her nephew. Their peace, however, is about to be invaded by Valentine, a young postulant sent by her Reverend Mother to “test her vocation…”	3
	Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo Publisher: Deutsch ISBN: 0952419327
Judges	Professor John Carey, Paul Bailey, Frank Delaney, Janet Morgan, Lorna Sage