Man Booker Prize Winners & Finalists (1991)

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1991 Winner
	Title/Author	The TurboBookSnob's Comments
	The Famished Road by Ben Okri Publisher: Cape	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Set in the ghetto of an African city during British colonial rule, this rich, phantasmagorical novel follows Azaro, a "spirit-child" who has reneged on a pact with the spirit world. Winner of the 1991 Booker Prize, this book is "something approaching a masterpiece of magic realism...." -- The Wall Street Journal
1991 Shortlist
	Time's Arrow by Martin Amis Publisher: Cape	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: In Time's Arrow the doctor Tod T. Friendly dies and then feels markedly better, breaks up with his lovers as a prelude to seducing them, and mangles his patients before he sends them home. And all the while Tod's life races backward toward the one appalling moment in modern history when such reversals make sense.

	The Van by Roddy Doyle Publisher: Secker & Warburg	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Shortlisted for the 1991 Booker Prize, and set in a Dublin suburb during the 1990 World Cup, this completes a trilogy which began with "The Commitments" and "The Snapper". Jimmy Rabitte Sr seeks refuge from the vicissitudes of unemployment by joining a friend in running a fish-and-chip van.

	Such a Long Journey by Rohinton Mistry Publisher: Faber & Faber	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: It is Bombay in 1971, the year India went to war over what was to become Bangladesh . A hard-working bank clerk, Gustad Noble is a devoted family man who gradually sees his modest life unravelling. His young daughter falls ill; his promising son defies his father's ambitions for him. He is the one reasonable voice amidst the ongoing dramas of his neighbours. One day, he receives a letter from an old friend, asking him to help in what at first seems like an heroic mission. But he soon finds himself unwittingly drawn into a dangerous network of deception. Compassionate, and rich in details of character and place, this unforgettable novel charts the journey of a moral heart in a turbulent world of change.

	The Redundancy of Courage by Timothy Mo Publisher: Chatto & Windus	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Winner of the E M Forster Award and shortlisted for the Booker Prize, this brutal and beautiful narration of the guerrilla war against the Indonesians in Timor, reappears now in this handsome edition at a topical moment in history as Timor fully joins the UN.

	Reading Turgenev (from Two Lives) by William Trevor Publisher: Viking	TurboBookSnob Review Coming Soon!
Publisher's Comments: Two novels--"Reading Turgenev" and "My house in Umbria "--explore the lives of two women whose lives are marred by the absence of love.
1991 Longlist
Longlist information for 1991 is not available; the Booker Prize did not release longlists until 2001.
1991 Judges
Jeremy Treglown (Chair), Penelope Fitzgerald, Jonathan Keates, Nicholas Mosley, and Anne Schlee