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Sunday, October 15, 2006
Wednesday, October 11, 2006
Which is the best novel in the past 25 years?
On the eve of this year’s Booker Prize, 150 literary luminaries voted for the best British, Irish or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005. An anguished minority argued for the inclusion of the German writer WG Sebald, whose translations of his own work render a prose so classical as to be quasi-native. Several correspondents puzzled over the meaning of ‘fiction’ and, inevitably, of ‘best’.
There was, too, a cut-off problem. 1980 is an arbitrary date. It excludes, by the narrowest of margins, VS Naipaul’s A Bend in the River (1979), by any standards one of the great novels of our time. And then, what do you do about John le Carre? Smiley himself was flourishing, imaginatively, until the Wall came down and the three main Smiley novels, written in the 1970s, were republished, in a single volume, in 1994. In the end, le Carre was represented by A Perfect Spy (1986).
In the novel, there are Anglo-Saxon and American attitudes. We celebrate a literary tradition of astonishing variety.
The winner
JM Coetzee’s Disgrace received nominations from writers across the English-speaking world. This unforgettable novel of the South African crisis has already brought its author a record breaking second Booker Prize in 1999. It is part of an oeuvre (including Waiting for the Barbarians, The Age of Iron and The Life and Times of Michael K) that was honoured by the Nobel in 2003.
First place for JM Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999)
Coetzee became the first writer to win the Booker Prize for a second time with this exploration of postapartheid South Africa, which centres on Professor David Lurie, in self-imposed exile at his daughter’s remote farm after an ill-advised affair with a student. He was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice: first for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983, and again for Disgrace in 1999. On 2 October 2003 it was announced that he was to be the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the fourth African born writer to be so honoured, and the second South African.
Second place for Martin Amis’s Money (1984)
Money is a first-person narrative by John Self, advertising man and would-be film director, who is "addicted to the twentieth century." Super-charged, anarchic and full of narrative acrobatics, Money burst on to the Eighties literary scene leaving a trail of imitators and devotees in its wake, not least because of its formidable, if frequently repulsive narrator, ad director John Self .
Joint third place for Earthly Powers (1980)
Anthony BurgessHomosexual writer Keith Toomey is asked to write the memoirs of the late Pope Gregory XVII - a commission that takes him on a whirlwind recap of the major events of the 20th century.
Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001)
Opening in 1935, Atonement focuses on Briony Tallis, at first as a 13year-old implicated in the conviction of a family friend for rape and, latterly, an elderly novelist on the brink of losing her memory.
Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower (1995)
Fitzgerald’s final novel, The Blue Flower is frequently cited as her masterpiece. It recreates the life of the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis, focusing on his romance with a 12-year-old girl.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled (1995)
The Unconsoled (1995) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is about Ryder, a famous pianist who arrives in a central European city to perform a concert. However, he appears to have lost most of his memory and finds his new environment surreal and dreamlike.
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981)
Rushdie’s second novel not only won the Booker prize but was also awarded the ‘Booker of Bookers’ in 1993. It unites powerful subject matter - the partition of India - with a dazzling, playful style. The novel is also an expression of the author's own childhood, his affection for the city of Bombay in those times, and the tumultuous variety of the Indian subcontinent.
Joint eighth place for Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1989)
Stevens, a butler at Darlington Hall, takes a trip to the West Country. His memories particularly of the late Lord Darlington , revealed as a Nazi sym pathiser - throw into sharp relief the novel’s themes of collusion, betrayal and repression.
Amongst Women (1990) John McGahern
A powerful meditation on 20th-century Irish history, particularly focusing on the Troubles, this novel was a runner-up for the Booker prize of 1990, and a national bestseller, confirming its author’s reputation as Ireland’s leading novelist.
John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun (2001)
A study of a rural community in Ireland, the changing seasons and the gradual creep of modernity. A genrebending fiction that incorporates memoir, history, folklore and a therapeutic reprise of the author’s own career.
For more details on Books visit us at http://www.halfvalue.com and http://www.halfvalue.co.uk .
There was, too, a cut-off problem. 1980 is an arbitrary date. It excludes, by the narrowest of margins, VS Naipaul’s A Bend in the River (1979), by any standards one of the great novels of our time. And then, what do you do about John le Carre? Smiley himself was flourishing, imaginatively, until the Wall came down and the three main Smiley novels, written in the 1970s, were republished, in a single volume, in 1994. In the end, le Carre was represented by A Perfect Spy (1986).
In the novel, there are Anglo-Saxon and American attitudes. We celebrate a literary tradition of astonishing variety.
The winner
JM Coetzee’s Disgrace received nominations from writers across the English-speaking world. This unforgettable novel of the South African crisis has already brought its author a record breaking second Booker Prize in 1999. It is part of an oeuvre (including Waiting for the Barbarians, The Age of Iron and The Life and Times of Michael K) that was honoured by the Nobel in 2003.
First place for JM Coetzee’s Disgrace (1999)
Coetzee became the first writer to win the Booker Prize for a second time with this exploration of postapartheid South Africa, which centres on Professor David Lurie, in self-imposed exile at his daughter’s remote farm after an ill-advised affair with a student. He was the first author to be awarded the Booker Prize twice: first for Life & Times of Michael K in 1983, and again for Disgrace in 1999. On 2 October 2003 it was announced that he was to be the recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, making him the fourth African born writer to be so honoured, and the second South African.
Second place for Martin Amis’s Money (1984)
Money is a first-person narrative by John Self, advertising man and would-be film director, who is "addicted to the twentieth century." Super-charged, anarchic and full of narrative acrobatics, Money burst on to the Eighties literary scene leaving a trail of imitators and devotees in its wake, not least because of its formidable, if frequently repulsive narrator, ad director John Self .
Joint third place for Earthly Powers (1980)
Anthony BurgessHomosexual writer Keith Toomey is asked to write the memoirs of the late Pope Gregory XVII - a commission that takes him on a whirlwind recap of the major events of the 20th century.
Ian McEwan’s Atonement (2001)
Opening in 1935, Atonement focuses on Briony Tallis, at first as a 13year-old implicated in the conviction of a family friend for rape and, latterly, an elderly novelist on the brink of losing her memory.
Penelope Fitzgerald’s The Blue Flower (1995)
Fitzgerald’s final novel, The Blue Flower is frequently cited as her masterpiece. It recreates the life of the 18th-century German poet and philosopher Novalis, focusing on his romance with a 12-year-old girl.
Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled (1995)
The Unconsoled (1995) is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It is about Ryder, a famous pianist who arrives in a central European city to perform a concert. However, he appears to have lost most of his memory and finds his new environment surreal and dreamlike.
Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children (1981)
Rushdie’s second novel not only won the Booker prize but was also awarded the ‘Booker of Bookers’ in 1993. It unites powerful subject matter - the partition of India - with a dazzling, playful style. The novel is also an expression of the author's own childhood, his affection for the city of Bombay in those times, and the tumultuous variety of the Indian subcontinent.
Joint eighth place for Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day (1989)
Stevens, a butler at Darlington Hall, takes a trip to the West Country. His memories particularly of the late Lord Darlington , revealed as a Nazi sym pathiser - throw into sharp relief the novel’s themes of collusion, betrayal and repression.
Amongst Women (1990) John McGahern
A powerful meditation on 20th-century Irish history, particularly focusing on the Troubles, this novel was a runner-up for the Booker prize of 1990, and a national bestseller, confirming its author’s reputation as Ireland’s leading novelist.
John McGahern’s That They May Face the Rising Sun (2001)
A study of a rural community in Ireland, the changing seasons and the gradual creep of modernity. A genrebending fiction that incorporates memoir, history, folklore and a therapeutic reprise of the author’s own career.
For more details on Books visit us at http://www.halfvalue.com and http://www.halfvalue.co.uk .
Tuesday, October 10, 2006
Musharraf’s “In the Line of Fire”
Pakistan is again on front pages of all major tabloids and television all over world, not because of any terrorist link or Taliban’s but because of his own President revelation of some secret to sell his books and make some good money as he realize that his ‘political demise’ is near. Mr.Parvez Musharraf a hardcore military personal seized the power through military coup by throwing out democratic elected government of Mr.Nawaz Sharif and declaring himself as a President of Pakistan by amending all the constitutional laws in October 1999.
• The book, In the Line of Fire, contains explosive details on how the United States persuaded Islamabad to join the "war on terror" and a first-hand account of see-sawing relations with neighbouring India.
• US intelligence paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over hundreds of Al-Qaeda suspects, and that Washington had threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" if it did not back the “war on terror”. The book has also come under fire at home over Musharraf's remarks that Pakistan's nuclear programme was not fully operational in 1999 when the country was embroiled in the Kargil conflict with India.
• Ahsan Iqbal, spokesman for Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party, said that was a state secret, which should not have been leaked by the president.” He has also violated the official secrecy law by talking about how Pakistan was coerced into joining the US-led war in Afghanistan," Iqbal said. He also called the memoir a "pack of lies."
• Second famous quote form this book that the “US had paid millions of dollars to Pakistan for capturing Al Qaeda operatives” had come as a humiliation for your country. Under the law, the US could not give the prize money to any government or the institution. By saying this you had raised your own country credibility in fighting against terrorist and joining War on Terror. So your government could do any thing for sake of some millions dollars?
• US intelligence paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over hundreds of Al-Qaeda suspects, and that Washington had threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" if it did not back the “war on terror”. The book has also come under fire at home over Musharraf's remarks that Pakistan's nuclear programme was not fully operational in 1999 when the country was embroiled in the Kargil conflict with India.
• A powerful alliance of six Islamic fundamentalist parties, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), also charged that Musharraf had violated his oath of office.
• "He has no constitutional right to use state expense to sell the book and reveal state secrets to generate interest," senior alliance leader Liaqat Baluch said. He said the opposition would raise the issue in parliament when it meets next month.
• Since he is not a democratically elected leader who feels his hands are tied by the constraints of a democratic system, he does not have to worry about the direct or indirect consequence of his words. The book might have boosted President financial standing but it had neither served the cause of truth nor the interests of your own country.
Major Controversies & Highlights of this Book
• Musharraf Lies on Kargil, Equates Terrorism and Freedom
• Musharraf Alleges, India Got Centrifuge Designs from AQ
• On Eight Occasions, Musharraf Dared His Death
• Musharraf Explains Kargil and More in 'In The Line of Fire'
Other Topics
• Humiliation at Agra
• US paid for Qaeda prisoners
• US threatened Pak post 9/11
• India has our N-design
• 9/11, UK bombings linked
• A meeting with Manmohan
• Osama is in East Afghanistan
• Kargil, Pak army’s finest hour
• I made a time bomb in college
• I wept after East Pakistan's fall
For more details on In the Line of Fire visit our http://www.halfvalue.com and http://www.halfvalue.co.uk websites.
• The book, In the Line of Fire, contains explosive details on how the United States persuaded Islamabad to join the "war on terror" and a first-hand account of see-sawing relations with neighbouring India.
• US intelligence paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over hundreds of Al-Qaeda suspects, and that Washington had threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" if it did not back the “war on terror”. The book has also come under fire at home over Musharraf's remarks that Pakistan's nuclear programme was not fully operational in 1999 when the country was embroiled in the Kargil conflict with India.
• Ahsan Iqbal, spokesman for Sharif's Pakistan Muslim League party, said that was a state secret, which should not have been leaked by the president.” He has also violated the official secrecy law by talking about how Pakistan was coerced into joining the US-led war in Afghanistan," Iqbal said. He also called the memoir a "pack of lies."
• Second famous quote form this book that the “US had paid millions of dollars to Pakistan for capturing Al Qaeda operatives” had come as a humiliation for your country. Under the law, the US could not give the prize money to any government or the institution. By saying this you had raised your own country credibility in fighting against terrorist and joining War on Terror. So your government could do any thing for sake of some millions dollars?
• US intelligence paid Pakistan millions of dollars for handing over hundreds of Al-Qaeda suspects, and that Washington had threatened to bomb Pakistan "back to the Stone Age" if it did not back the “war on terror”. The book has also come under fire at home over Musharraf's remarks that Pakistan's nuclear programme was not fully operational in 1999 when the country was embroiled in the Kargil conflict with India.
• A powerful alliance of six Islamic fundamentalist parties, Muttahida Majlis-e-Amal (MMA), also charged that Musharraf had violated his oath of office.
• "He has no constitutional right to use state expense to sell the book and reveal state secrets to generate interest," senior alliance leader Liaqat Baluch said. He said the opposition would raise the issue in parliament when it meets next month.
• Since he is not a democratically elected leader who feels his hands are tied by the constraints of a democratic system, he does not have to worry about the direct or indirect consequence of his words. The book might have boosted President financial standing but it had neither served the cause of truth nor the interests of your own country.
Major Controversies & Highlights of this Book
• Musharraf Lies on Kargil, Equates Terrorism and Freedom
• Musharraf Alleges, India Got Centrifuge Designs from AQ
• On Eight Occasions, Musharraf Dared His Death
• Musharraf Explains Kargil and More in 'In The Line of Fire'
Other Topics
• Humiliation at Agra
• US paid for Qaeda prisoners
• US threatened Pak post 9/11
• India has our N-design
• 9/11, UK bombings linked
• A meeting with Manmohan
• Osama is in East Afghanistan
• Kargil, Pak army’s finest hour
• I made a time bomb in college
• I wept after East Pakistan's fall
For more details on In the Line of Fire visit our http://www.halfvalue.com and http://www.halfvalue.co.uk websites.
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