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WINNER OF THE INTERNATIONAL MAN BOOKER PRIZE 2017 The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come expecting an evening of amusement instead sees a comedian falling apart on stage; an act of disintegration, a man crumbling, as a matter of choice, before their eyes. They could get up and leave, or boo and whistle and drive him from the stage, if they were not so drawn to glimpse his personal hell. Dovaleh G, a veteran stand-up comic - charming, erratic, repellent - exposes a wound he has been living with for years: a fateful and gruesome choice he had to make between the two people who were dearest to him. A Horse Walks into a Bar is a shocking and breathtaking read. Betrayals between lovers, the treachery of friends, guilt demanding redress. Flaying alive both himself and the people watching him, Dovaleh G provokes both revulsion and empathy from an audience that doesn't know whether to laugh or cry - and all this in the presence of a former childhood friend who is trying to understand why he's been summoned to this performance.
Forlag Vintage
Utgivelsesår 2017
Format Heftet
ISBN13 9781784704223
EAN 9781784704223
Språk Engelsk
Utgave 1
Tildelt litteraturpris Booker international prize 2017
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Bookerprisen (engelsk navn: «Booker Prize for Fiction» og «Man Booker Prize») blir årlig utdelt til den beste romanen skrevet på engelsk og utgitt i Storbritannia (tidligere begrenset til innbyggere i Samveldet, Irland og Zimbabwe). Prisen ble innstiftet av bokhandlerkjeden Booker plc i 1968. For å bevare prisens eksklusivitet velger man ut jurymedlemmer blant kritikere, forfattere og akademikere. Siden 2002 har prisen også blitt omtalt som «Man Booker Prize» for å reflektere at prisen blir sponset av et investeringsselskap, Man Group plc.