Вручение 8 мая 2003 г.
Страна: Великобритания
Место проведения: город Лондон
Дата проведения: 8 мая 2003 г.
Художественная литература
Лауреат
Зэди Смит
2.9
"Собиратель автографов" - второй роман молодой англичанки Зэди Смит. Как и первая ее книга, "Белые зубы", он был тепло принят читателями и критикой, удостоен престижных литературных наград. С юмором и любовью он повествует о жизни современного мультикультурного Лондона.
Алекс Ли Тандем не слишком удачливый малый. Он зарабатывает на жизнь тем, что покупает и продает автографы знаменитостей. С юных лет Алекс мечтает заполучить подпись звезды пятидесятых Кити Александер, которая сошла с голливудского небосклона и живет затворницей. И вот из Америки приходит открытка с заветным автографом. Но не мистификация ли это?
Переводчик: Д. Благов
Норман Лебрехт
4.5
Накануне Второй мировой войны юного скрипача Довидла Рапопорта оставляют, пока его отец съездит в Польшу за семьей, у антрепренера Симмондса. Семья Довидла погибает в Холокосте. Симмондсы любят Довидла, лелеют его талант, а для их сына Мартина он больше, чем брат. Довидла ждет блестящая карьера. Однако в день, когда Довидл должен дать первый концерт, он исчезает. Страшный удар для Симмондсов. Потрясение, изменившее жизнь Мартина. Лишь сорок лет спустя Мартину удается раскрыть тайну исчезновения Довидла.
О сложных отношениях гения с поклонниками, о закулисье музыкального мира Норман Лебрехт, самый известный музыкальный критик Англии, написал с отменным знанием дела и при этом увлекательно.
Арношт Лустиг
0.0
She has hair of ginger and lovely green eyes, and she has just been transported with her family from Terezin to Auschwitz. In short order, her father commits suicide, and her mother and younger brother are dispatched to the gas chambers, but 15 year old Hanka Kaudersova is still alive. Faced with the choice of certain death in the camp or working in a German military brothel on the eastern front, she chooses a chance at life. Passing as an Aryan, Hanka's days in the brothel are full of cold and hunger, fear and shame. She is sustained by her loathing of the men who visit her and by a fierce, indomitable will to live. This devastatingly beautiful novel soars beyond the nightmare to leave the reader with a transcendent sense of hope.
Dannie Abse
0.0
Inspired by the disturbing 1905 Swedish classic, Dr. Glas by Hjalmar Soderberg, a novel that explores the possibility of pure moral murder, and with more than a nod to Robert Louis Stevenson's The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Dannie Abse draws on his own medical experience in this haunting tale of Dr. Simmondsa man whose face has been disfigured in a childhood accident and whose heart is scarred by unacknowledged monsters. Dr. Simmonds, a general practitioner tending mostly to Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany who have settled in the precincts of London's Swiss Cottage, finds himself irresistibly drawn into an increasingly disturbing fantasy life by Yvonne Bloomberg, the young wife of one of his more (to him) execrable patients. When she presents Simmonds with a copy of the novel Dr. Glas, in which a doctor colludes with a patient to murder her husband, the boundaries between reality and fantasy begin to blur and Simmonds begins to act upon impulses from a darker, undoctorly, scarred side of his nature. He sets out on a course that withholds its full horror until the very end of this brilliant Booker nominee.
Документальная литература
Лауреат
Sebastian Haffner
4.4
Written in 1939 and unpublished until 2000, Sebastian Haffner's memoir of the rise of Nazism in Germany offers a unique portrait of the lives of ordinary German citizens between the wars. Covering 1907 to 1933, his eyewitness account provides a portrait of a country in constant flux: from the rise of the First Corps, the right-wing voluntary military force set up in 1918 to suppress Communism and precursor to the Nazi storm troopers, to the Hitler Youth movement; from the apocalyptic year of 1923 when inflation crippled the country to Hitler's rise to power. This fascinating personal history elucidates how the average German grappled with a rapidly changing society, while chronicling day-to-day changes in attitudes, beliefs, politics, and prejudices.
Роман Фристер
0.0
This book is a grand epic in which Roman Frister reconstructs the real-life story of the Levy family to produce a unique portrait of a Jewish family swept along in the rise and fall of German history. We follow them through the hard times and the happier ones, in business and in their personal lives. As history is interwoven with Frister's interpretation of the Levy family's experiences, this intellectually engaging book—in truth a historical document—reads like an epic novel.
Иан Томпсон
0.0
Primo Levi wrote books that have been called "the essential works of humankind," including Survival in Auschwitz and The Periodic Table. Yet he lived an unremarkable existence, remaining to his death in the house in which he'd been born; managing a paint and varnish factory for thirty years; and tending his invalid mother to the end. Now, in a matchless account, Ian Thomson unravels the strands of an influential life.
Кэрол Энджер
0.0
An important writer to emerge from the death camps, Levi spent 65 of his 67 years in Turin, Italy, where he worked as a chemist by day & wrote at night in a study, his childhood bedroom. Thanks to memoirs--"Survival in Auschwitz", "The Reawakening" & "The Periodic Table"--he became known as a moral man who'd transmuted the agonies of persecution into understanding. He died in 1987, apparently having thrown himself into the stairwell of the house in which he'd been born. Angier spent a decade writing this meticulously researched biography, which illuminates the design of his interior life: how he lived as a man divided, not only between chemistry & writing but between hope & despair, & how the duty to testify released him to communicate.
Angier's biography of Jean Rhys (1990) was shortlisted for the Whitbread Biography Award & won the Writers' Guild Award for Non-Fiction. She's the Royal Literary Fund Associate Fellow at the University of Warwick & lives in Oxfordshire.
"A vastly detailed & intricately layered biography...Meticulous & visionary...Angier's critical appreciation is to my mind flawless."--Richard Eder, NY Times Book Review
"Compelling & beautifully written...Ms Angier's book is devoted to capturing the inner man as much as the outward circumstances of his life...Her detailed account of the ordeal in the camps is painstakingly presented & told with a respectful care."--Erich Eichman, Wall Street
"Brilliantly unorthodox...Angier is Levi's perfect biographer--a natural foil for his own reluctance to reveal his real self--& her work is the perfect complement to his, daring & justified in each of its own liberties...Her book is a remarkable success. Not only for its own achievement, but also because it restores to Levi's life the dignity his death seemed to betray."--Alex Abramovich"--Village Voice
"The Double Bond has the pace & grip of a thriller. I could hardly out it down from the start to finish. Primo Levi was a natural storyteller whose fearful experiences in Auschwitz & elsewhere made him a great writer, & one of the 20th century's prime witnesses. It cost him all he had to give. Carole Angier explores the dark secrets of his life & work with humane & moving clarity. She uses the unknown & unknowable as key structural elements--like holes in lace--in a biographical design as rich, intricate & mysterious as the nature of the man it mirrors."--Hilary Spurling, author of "The Unknown Matisse"
"Carole Angier has solved the almost intractable problems which Primo Levi sets the modern biographer, with penetrating & audacious ingenuity. Using his own literary methods & complementing them, with intelligence & imagination, she gives us new insight into his character. His great mission was to bear witness during the last half of the 20th century. Her inspired recreation of his life & work will assist him to continue doing so well into the present century. It is is a subtle & extraordinary achievement."--Michael Holroyd, author of "Lytton Strachey"
"Angier's life study succeeds because, beyond its diligence & probity, it is an exhaustive exercise of moral imagination. She openly subjects many of her own insights & conjectures to the question of how her subject might have reacted to them."--Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle
"Angier's long, gripping narrative of Levi's time in Auschwitz synthesizes the best of his memoirs, poetry, fiction, essays & scientific writing. She shows & tells that he was 'not just a great witness but a great artist; & the 1st because the 2nd.' Just as compelling is her discussion of the moral issues he raises about the 'gray zone' of human behavior, the shame of the drowned & the saved, the roles of victims, perpetrators & bystanders. A compelling biography & a must for all Holocaust collections."
Roma Ligocka
3.0
As a child in German-occupied Poland, Roma Ligocka was known for the bright strawberry-red coat she wore against a tide of gathering darkness. Fifty years later, Roma, an artist living in Germany, attended a screening of Steven Spielberg’s Schindler’s List, and instantly knew that “the girl in the red coat”—the only splash of color in the film—was her. Thus began a harrowing journey into the past, as Roma Ligocka sought to reclaim her life and put together the pieces of a shattered childhood.
The result is this remarkable memoir, a fifty-year chronicle of survival and its aftermath. With brutal honesty, Ligocka recollects a childhood at the heart of evil: the flashing black boots, the sudden executions, her mother weeping, her father vanished…then her own harrowing escape and the strange twists of fate that allowed her to live on into the haunted years after the war. Powerful, lyrical, and unique among Holocaust memoirs, The Girl in the Red Coat eloquently explores the power of evil to twist our lives long after we have survived it. It is a story for anyone who has ever known the darkness of an unbearable past—and searched for the courage to move forward into the light.
