Booker Prize 2022

Hernan Diaz’s second novel Trust not only made it to the 2022-Booker Longlist but also featured as one of Barack Obama’s best books of the year. Diaz’s careful exploration of 20th century American history through fiction shows us the power that stories have to tell facts. PREMIUM New York’s Financial District in a photo taken from a US Army plane in 1920. (Everett Collection/Shutterstock) 416pp, ₹750; Pan Macmillan With a page of contents that lists four titles with four different authors, the reader’s…

Haven’t there been enough historical events where photographs have chronicled the horrific essence of conflicts and wars? Haven’t we all shed a tear for photojournalists who gave up their lives attempting to capture every second of brutality and injustice through the lens of their camera? In 2022, if there’s one book that really touched my conscience, it was Shehan Karunatilaka’s Booker Prize-winning novel, The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida. Previously published as Chats with the Dead in 2020, it is a tribute to all…