The Booker Prizes | Nonso Anozie reads from ‘James’ | The Booker Prize @TheBookerPrizes | Uploaded October 2024 | Updated October 2024, 7 hours ago.
Watch Nonso Anozie read from Booker Prize 2024-shortlisted ‘James’, written by Percival Everett.

The story so far: It’s 1861 and Jim, a slave and soon-to-be companion of Huckleberry Finn on a dangerous journey along the Mississippi River, is a man driven by a fierce instinct to survive and to protect his family. This includes teaching his own and other children the behavioural and language skills needed to avoid antagonising the white people who have made their lives hell.

Discover the book: thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/james

Directed by Sebastian Thiel for Merman.

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The Booker Prize is the leading literary award in the English speaking world, and has brought recognition, reward and readership to outstanding fiction for over five decades. Each year, the prize is awarded to what is, in the opinion of the judges, the best novel of the year written in English and published in the UK and Ireland.

Previous winners include The Testaments by Margaret Atwood, Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, The Promise by Damon Galgut, Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally, Life of Pi by Yann Martel, The Bone People by Keri Hulme and many more.

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