Reviewing the Booker #1: Burnt Sugar & Mournable Body

Описание: Sorry, the sound is rather ‘quiet’ in the first 4 minutes, but I cranked up the mic after that.

My review of:
Avni Doshi, Burnt Sugar (July 2020):   / burnt-sugar  

Tsitsi Dangarembga, This Mournable Body (Jan 2020 / 2018):   / this-mournable-body  

Booker website: https://thebookerprizes.com/fiction/2020

The Booker Dozen 2020:
Author (country/territory) Title / pub date
-Diane Cook (USA) The New Wilderness (August 2020):   / the-new-wilderness  

Tsitsi Dangarembga (Zimbabwe) This Mournable Body (Jan 2020 / 2018):   / this-mournable-body  

Avni Doshi (USA) Burnt Sugar (July 2020):   / burnt-sugar  

Gabriel Krauze (UK) Who They Was (Sept. 2020):   / who-they-was  

Hilary Mantel (UK) The Mirror & The Light (March 2020):   / the-mirror-the-light  

Colum McCann (Ireland/USA) Apeirogon (Feb 2020):   / apeirogon  

Maaza Mengiste (Ethiopia/USA) The Shadow King (Sept. 2019):   / the-shadow-king  

Kiley Reid (USA) Such a Fun Age (Dec 2019):   / such-a-fun-age  

Brandon Taylor (USA) Real Life (Feb 2020):   / real-life  

Anne Tyler (USA) Redhead by The Side of The Road (April 2020):   / redhead-by-the-side-of-the-road  

Douglas Stuart (Scotland/USA) Shuggie Bain (Feb 2020):   / shuggie-bain  

Sophie Ward (UK) Love and Other Thought Experiments (Feb 2020):   / love-and-other-thought-experiments  

C Pam Zhang (USA) How Much of These Hills is Gold (April 2020):   / how-much-of-these-hills-is-gold  

Shortlist announced on 15 September 2020

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By the way:
I stole the name ‘The Second Shelf’ from the title of Meg Wolitzer’s article in the New York Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/boo...

I also wrote some books:
The Decision (2015): http://hauspublishing.com/fiction/the...
or in the German original: Der Brief des Zauberers (2104): http://www.aufbau-verlag.de/index.php...

Dutch non-fiction: De goede advocaat (2017): http://www.uitgeverijcossee.nl/boek/D...

as Britta Bolt (together with writer Rodney Bolt), The Posthumus Mysteries:
Lonely Graves (2014)
Lives Lost (2015)
Deadly Secrets (June 2016)
https://www.hodder.co.uk/authors/deta...

and for German readers:
Das Büro der einsamen Toten (2015)
Das Haus der verlorenen Seelen (2016)
Der Tote im fremden Mantel (February 2017)
http://www.hoffmann-und-campe.de/auto...