Just to recap from my earlier blogs (dated Feb 4, 2010 and March 31, 2010) – back in 1971, the Booker Prize was revamped to honour the best novel of the year based on its year of publications. And so, many books published in 1970 were left without any opportunity of winning a Booker Prize… until this year.
The Lost Man Booker Prize is the brainchild of Peter Straus, honorary archivist to the Booker Prize Foundation.
Out of the shortlist of 6 titles, Troubles by J.G. Farrell (1935-1979) was picked as a clear winner of the prize. Troubles is the first in Farrell’s Empire Trilogy, which was followed by The Siege of Krisnapur and The Singapore Grip.
Set in Ireland in 1919, just after the First World War, Troubles tells the tragic-comic story of Major Brendan Archer who has gone to visit Angela, a woman he believes may be his fiancée. Her home, from which he is unable to detach himself, is the dilapidated Majestic, a once grand Irish hotel, and all around is the gathering storm of the Irish War of Independence.
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