Girl, Woman, Other A Novel (Booker Prize Winner)

A novel about Britain, through the eyes of women, girls and others of colour. Bernadine Evaristo puts the feelings, dreams and experiences of these characters into a wonderful web of connection and paints a picture of the country from many different underrepresented perspectives. With an unusual writing style that I found myself really enjoying, this book is refreshing, emotional and multi-faceted in a way that made me not want to put it away. It absolutely deserved the Booker Prize and I urge everyone to read it!

Evaristo has such a good hand for creating a very unique and unforgettable reading experience! The characters are simply remarkable and the writing style of the book is just perfection!! I love how everything is connected in the end!

Berührend, bewegend, aufwühlend, zutiefst poetisch und politisch! 12 genial miteinander verwobene Lebensläufe die sich lesen wie im Rausch. Einziges Manko, danach weiss Frau erstmal nicht was Sie jetzt noch lesen soll.

The Booker Prize has been awarded to both really great novels ("Lincoln in the Bardo" by George Saunders two years ago) and some really questionable ones ("Milkman" by Anna Burns last year). This year, two novels shared the award, and while Margaret Atwood's "The Testaments" sadly belongs to the latter category, Bernardine Evaristo powerfully claims admission to the former club with "Girl, Woman, Other". It is a book about women of color in Great Britain in twelve portraits spreading roughly a century, but it's poststructurist, so it does not give out information chronologically or from a single perspective. Indeed, Evaristo makes a point of showing the same relationship or the same situation from various points of view. And yet: This is not an intellectual exercise - or a lesbian manifesto for that matter. The twelve women portrayed in somewhat short-story style - well, the eleven women portrayed as well as the one non-binary person - are richly developed characters that don't make it easy to be on anyone's side. Still, there are some favorites. Dominique, Bummi and Winsome have some of the most moving stories, but then why was it Penelope of all people who moved me to tears? A wonderful book that I'll rave some more about as soon as it is published in German in January!

To cut this short: Pick up your copy and start reading. You don´t want to miss out on this one!