Read The God of Small Things

Saleem Rushdie, born at the stroke of Indian independence, and a thousand children like him; the Booker of Bookers.

A boy and a tiger in a lifeboat for 227 days, and the second story at the end.

A Bangalore driver murders his master and explains why in letters to the Chinese premier; Adiga's Booker.

Willie Lincoln's ghost and a graveyard chorus on one night in 1862; Saunders' Booker.

A butler drives to Cornwall and considers what he gave up for a lord; Ishiguro's Booker.

Thomas Cromwell rises under Henry VIII in the present tense; Mantel's first Booker.

An unnamed girl in an unnamed Belfast stalked by a paramilitary; Anna Burns' Booker.

A Cape Town professor loses his job and moves to his daughter's farm; Coetzee's second Booker.