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CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE in ENGLISH (Post-1999) CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (post-1999) BOOKS AVAILABLE FROM THE SCHOOL LIBRARY or Ms. Hrušková NOVELS Adiga, Aravind The White Tiger (2008) Atwood, Margaret The Testaments (2019) Barnes, Julian The Sense of an Ending (2011) Love, etc. (2000) Barry, Sebastian Days Without End (2016) Beatty, Paul Sellout (2015) Boyne, John The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) Bushnell, Candace Trading Up (2003) Chbosky, Stephen The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) Coetzee, J. M. Disgrace (1999) Collins, Suzanne The Hunger Games (2008) Catching Fire (2009) Mockingjay (2010) Cunningham, Michael The Hours (1998) By Nightfall (2010) Davis, Brooke Lost & Found (2014) DeLillo, Don Cosmopolis (2003) Desai, Anita Fasting, Feasting (1999) Dicks ( see Green), Matthew Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (2012) Doerr, Anthony All the Light We Cannot See (2015) Donoghue, Emma Room (2010) Dunthorne, Joe Submarine (2008) Evaristo, Bernardine Girl, Woman, Other (2019) Faber, Michel Under the Skin (2000) Flanagan, Richard The Narrow Road to the Deep North (2013) Forman, Gayle Where She Went (2011) Frayn, Michael Spies (2002) Genova, Lisa Still Alice (2007) Gordimer, Nadine The Pickup (2001) Green, John The Fault in Our Stars (2012) Green/Dicks, Matthew Memoirs of an Imaginary Friend (2012) Grossman, David A Horse Walks into a Bar (2016) Haddon, Mark A Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time (2003) Harris, Joanne Chocolat (1999) Hilderbrand, Elin Barefoot (2007) Hoffman, Alice The Third Angel (2008) Hornby, Nick How to Be Good (2001) Hosseini, Khaled The Kite-Runner (2003) And the Mountains Echoed (2013) Hustvedt, Siri The Sorrows of an American (2008) Ishiguro, Kazuo Never Let Me Go (2005) Jacobson, Howard The Finkler Question (2010) Shylock is My Name (2016) James, Marlon A Brief History of Seven Killings (2014) Kneale, Matthew English Passengers (2000) Malley, Gemma The Declaration (2008) Martel, Yann The Life of Pi (2001) McCabe, Patrick Breakfast on Pluto (1998) McCourt, Frank Teacher Man (2005) McEwan, Ian Atonement (2001) Solar (2010) The Children Act (2014) Morrison, Toni A Mercy (2008) Nicholls, David One Day (2001) Ondaatje, Michael Anil’s Ghost (2000) Pierre, DBC Vernon God Little (2003) Proulx, Annie The Brokeback Mountain (1993) Ralph, Anna Before I Knew Him (2008) Quick, Matthew Silver Lining Playbook (2008) Sebold, Alice The Lovely Bones (2002) Shamsie, Kamila Home Fire (2016) Smith, Ali Hotel World (2001) Smith, Zadie White Teeth (2000) Torday, Paul Salmon Fishing in the Yemen (2006) Trollope, Joanna Friday Nights (2007) Winterson, Jeanette The Gap of Time (2015) Zusak, Markus The Book Thief (2005) PLAYS Guirgis, S. A. The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (2005) Kane, Sarah Complete Plays (4.48 Psychosis, 2000) Rapp, Adam Red Light Winter (2005) Stoppard, Tom Rock’n’Roll (2006) CONTEMPORARY LITERATURE IN ENGLISH (post-1999) – SHORT SYNOPSES NOVELS Adiga, A. The White Tiger (2008) THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2008 Set in a raw and unromanticized India, The White Tiger – the first-person confession of a murderer – is as compelling for its subject matter as it is for the voice of its narrator: amoral, cynical, unrepentant, yet deeply endearing. Atwood, M. The Testaments (2019) THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2019 More than fifteen years after the events of The Handmaid's Tale, the theocratic regime of the Republic of Gilead maintains its grip on power, but there are signs it is beginning to rot from within. At this crucial moment, the lives of three radically different women of different experience with the regime converge, with potentially explosive results. Each woman is forced to come to terms with who she is, and how far she will go for what she believes. Barnes, J. The Sense of an Ending (2011) THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2011 Tony Webster and his clique first met Adrian Finn at school. Sex-hungry and book-hungry, they would navigate the girl- less sixth form together, trading in affectations, in-jokes, rumour and wit. Maybe Adrian was a little more serious than the others, certainly more intelligent, but they all swore to stay friends for life. Now Tony is retired. He's had a career and a single marriage, a calm divorce. He's certainly never tried to hurt anybody. Memory, though, is imperfect. It can always throw up surprises, as a lawyer's letter is about to prove. Barry, Sebastian Days Without End (2016) COSTA BOOKS AWARD 2016 After signing up for the US army in the 1850s, aged barely seventeen, Thomas McNulty and his brother-in-arms, John Cole, fight in the Indian Wars and the Civil War. Having fled terrible hardships, their days are now vivid and filled with wonder, despite the horrors they both see and are complicit in. Then a young Indian girl crosses their path.... Beatty, P. Sellout (2015) [pɔːl beɪtiː] THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2016 A biting satire about a young man's isolated upbringing and the race trial that sends him to the Supreme Court, Paul Beatty's The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality – the black Chinese restaurant. Boyne, J. The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas (2006) Nine-year-old Bruno knows nothing of the Final Solution and the Holocaust. He is oblivious to the appalling cruelties being inflicted on the people of Europe by his country. All he knows is that he has been moved from a comfortable home in Berlin to a house in a desolate area where there is nothing to do and no one to play with. Until he meets Shmuel, a boy who lives a strange parallel existence on the other side of the adjoining wire fence and who, like the other people there, wears a uniform of striped pyjamas… Bruno's friendship with Shmuel will take him from innocence to revelation. And in exploring what he is unwittingly a part of, he will inevitably become subsumed by the terrible process. Bushnell, C. Trading Up (2003) [kændɪs bʊʃˈnel] With a brilliant comic voice as well as Jane Austen's penchant for social satire, Candace Bushnell, who with Sex and the City changed forever how we view New York City, female friendships, and the love of a good pair of Manolos, now brings us a sharply observant, keenly funny, wildly entertaining latter day comedy of manners. Chbosky, S. The Perks of Being a Wallflower (1999) [stiːvn ʃəˈbɒskɪ] A cult-favourite coming of age story that takes a sometimes heartbreaking, often hysterical, and always honest look at high school in all its glory, The Perks of Being a Wallflower is a funny, touching, and haunting modern classic. It follows observant “wallflower” Charlie as he charts a course through the strange world between adolescence and adulthood. First dates, family drama, and new friends. Sex, drugs, and The Rocky Horror Picture Show . Devastating loss, young love, and life on the fringes. Caught between trying to live his life and trying to run from it, Charlie must learn to navigate those wild and poignant roller-coaster days known as growing up. Coetzee, J.M. Disgrace (1999) [kʊtˈziː] THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE 1999; THE AUTHOR IS A NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Set in post-apartheid South Africa, the novel tells the story of David Lurie, a twice divorced, 52-year-old professor of communications and Romantic Poetry at Cape Technical University. Lurie believes he has created a comfortable, if somewhat passionless, life for himself. He lives within his financial and emotional means. Though his position at the university has been reduced, he teaches his classes dutifully; and while age has diminished his attractiveness, weekly visits to a prostitute satisfy his sexual needs. He considers himself happy. But when Lurie seduces one of his students, he sets in motion a chain of events that will shatter his complacency and leave him utterly disgraced. Collins, S. The Hunger Games (2008) [suːˈzæn] Katniss is a 16-year-old girl living with her mother and younger sister in the poorest district of Panem, the remains of what used be North America. Long ago the districts waged war on the Capitol and were defeated. As part of the surrender terms, each district agreed to send one boy and one girl to appear in an annual televised event called, "The Hunger Games." The terrain, rules, and level of audience participation may change but one thing is constant: kill or be killed. When her sister is chosen by lottery, Katniss steps up to go in her place. Collins, S. Catching Fire (2009) Much to her shock, Katniss has fueled an unrest she's afraid she cannot stop. And what scares her more is that she's not entirely convinced she should try. As time draws near for Katniss and Peeta to visit the districts on the Capitol's cruel Victory Tour, the stakes are higher than ever. If they can't prove, without a shadow of a doubt, that they are lost in their love for each other, the consequences will be horrifying. Collins, S. Mockingjay (2010) Katniss Everdeen, girl on fire, has survived, even though her home has been destroyed. There are rebels. There are new leaders. A revolution is unfolding. Cunningham, M. By Nightfall (2010) The novel tells the story of Peter Harris, a gallery owner in Manhattan whose comfortable marriage is interrupted by the arrival of Mizzy (short for “the Mistake”), the younger brother of his wife, Rebecca. Peter—a straight man—finds Mizzy’s youth intoxicating and seductive. Soon, Peter is questioning his life, his marriage, even his sexuality, and wondering if it’sworth throwing it all away. Davis, B. Lost & Found (2014) Millie Bird is a 7-year-old girl.
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