Booker Prize Winners

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Booker Prize Winners

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Name	Author	Year	Country of Origin	Publisher	Genre	Synopsis
31The God of Small Things	Arundhati Roy	1997	India	Flamingo	Literary Fiction	Set in Kerala, India, it follows twin siblings whose childhood is shaped by tragic events, forbidden love, and caste constraints.
32Amsterdam	Ian McEwan	1998	United Kingdom	Jonathan Cape	Literary Fiction	Two old friends, a composer and a newspaper editor, make a dark pact after the death of a shared lover, leading to unexpected consequences.
33Disgrace	J.M. Coetzee	1999	South Africa	Secker & Warburg	Literary Fiction	A South African professor faces the aftermath of an affair with a student, tackling themes of guilt, redemption, and post-apartheid racial tensions.
34The Blind Assassin	Margaret Atwood	2000	Canada	McClelland & Stewart	Literary Fiction	A layered narrative weaving a tragic family saga with a science fiction novel within the novel, unveiling secrets and betrayals.
35True History of the Kelly Gang	Peter Carey	2001	Australia	Faber & Faber	Historical Fiction	A fictionalized memoir of the Australian outlaw Ned Kelly, told in an autobiographical style.
36Life of Pi	Yann Martel	2002	Canada	Knopf Canada	Adventure/Philosophical Fiction	The survival journey of Pi Patel, a boy stranded in the Pacific Ocean with a Bengal tiger named Richard Parker.
37Vernon God Little	DBC Pierre	2003	Australia	Faber & Faber	Satirical Fiction	A Texas teenager is falsely accused of a school shooting, offering a darkly humorous critique of media sensationalism and American culture.
38The Line of Beauty	Alan Hollinghurst	2004	United Kingdom	Picador	Literary Fiction	Set in 1980s Britain, it follows a young gay man entangled with a wealthy conservative family, exploring class, politics, and sexuality.
39The Sea	John Banville	2005	Ireland	Picador	Literary Fiction	A grieving man returns to the seaside town of his childhood, confronting memories of love and loss.
40The Inheritance of Loss	Kiran Desai	2006	India	Atlantic Monthly Press	Literary Fiction	Explores the intertwined lives of people in a Himalayan town and in New York, addressing migration, colonial legacy, and identity.
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