Bookmark: Booker Prize 2013 Winner & New Fiction Reviews

Umapagan Ampikaipakan

29-Oct-13 14:00

Bookmark: Booker Prize 2013 Winner & New Fiction Reviews

Literary reviewer Umapagan Ampikaipakan weighs in on this year’s Man Booker Prize winner, Eleanor Catton, the youngest writer to win the prize, with the longest novel to triumph in the award too.

He also reviews two works, The Wes Anderson Collection by Matt Zoller Seitz and The Krauss Project by Jonathan Franzen.

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