A protest! How could the Man Booker judges award the prize for an 'English language' novel to a book written in a dialect - the Los Angeles black community's - which must represent about 0.000001% of English language readers world wide? When you can decipher it, the central theme of this irritating book - re-instating racial segregation to promote social cohesion - is a good tease but the incomprehensible language, the obsessive navel-gazing on purely local affairs and cultural figures? . . . aaahhhgggrrrrr......!!!!!!
(Annabel Bedini - bwl 83 Winter 2017 ) |
