: Booker Prize longlist: ‘Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies’ is a visual dystopia of a body in decay #IndiaNEWS The 2022 Booker Longlist boasted variety in the range of books it offered. From who writes,

Booker Prize longlist: ‘Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies’ is a visual dystopia of a body in decay #IndiaNEWS
The 2022 Booker Longlist boasted variety in the range of books it offered. From who writes, who publishes, what is written, how much is written to how it’s written. A patient glance through the list tickles readers of varying tastes, interests and expectations from what a book delivers. Among them, Maddie Mortimer’s Maps of Our Spectacular Bodies, that stands out for its very interesting format, and a story that sketches human bodies in myriad transitions.Lia is sick. At the very outset, the readers are informed of the cancer that has taken control of her body yet again. But it’s not Lia who says it out loud. It is the disembodied, shape-shifting voice of the illness, cancer, which speaks in bold texts throughout the book. Written in verse form, the book defies conventional mode of writing a novel by making it a visual experience in the very pages. Lia’s steadfast relation with her husband is shown in an image of dips and swells of words when he reassures here that, “We’ve done it before and we’ll do it again.�? The ‘it’ being the cancer that has returned with horror of past memories to wreak havoc in her present. And then we find her young daughter...Read more

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