Books by Bilal Ramadan
Tuesday, August 15, 2023 at 06:00 AM
A longer list is always warranted Foreign Booker PrizeThere is an influx of novels inspired by real events, or historical facts whose creators hope to address them in many aspects, and this session for 2023, the long list has seen the arrival of three novels based on true events. .
Booker Prize for Longlisted Novels 2023
The House of Doors is a novel by Dan Duan Eng
The events of the 1921 novel House of Doors by author Tan Duan Ng are based on a court case in which the heroine is a woman accused of murder. In the novel, the events of a wealthy lawyer and his wife are visited by an old friend: the writer William Somerset Maugham.
The House of Doors is a novel
This Other Eden is a novel by Paul Harding
Although Paul Harding’s This Other Eden is set on a fictional island, it is based on the real Malaga Island in Maine, which was home to a multiracial community from the Civil War until the early 20th century, when its inhabitants were forcibly removed.
This is another Eden novel
Pearl is a novel by Sian Hughes
Sian Hughes’ novel Pearl is inspired by the medieval poem of the same name, which the heroine Marian finds in the book; The fourteenth-century poem is considered one of the masterpieces of Middle English literature.
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