This is the second(ish) novel to win the Booker Prize. I am interested in the question of what wins prizes at different periods of times because it sheds some kind of light on critical and popular taste. In the early years of the prize some very good novels were to win, some particularly weak novels were to win, and some very good novels were to lose. This book is somewhere in the middle: an interesting but forgettable novel that lingers because of the win, but […]