The Booker Prize in DCU Library

Born in the "agrarian ghetto" of Dickens―on the southern outskirts of Los Angeles―the narrator of The Sellout resigns himself to the fate of lower-middle-class Californians: "I'd die in the same bedroom I'd grown up in, looking up at the cracks in the stucco ceiling that've been there since '68 quake." Raised by a single father, a controversial sociologist, he spent his childhood as the subject in racially charged psychological studies. He is led to believe that his father's pioneering work will result in a memoir that will solve his family's financial woes. But when his father is killed in a police shoot-out, he realizes there never was a memoir. All that's left is the bill for a drive-thru funeral. Fueled by this deceit and the general disrepair of his hometown, the narrator sets out to right another wrong

Paul Beatty is the author of the novels Slumberland, Tuff, The White Boy Shuffle and The Sellout. He is the first American winner of the Booker Prize. He lives in New York City.
The Sellout is located at Cregan and O'Reilly Libraries

In 1869, Roderick Macrae was accused of the brutal slaying of three people, in a murder trial that gripped the British public and shocked the nation. Roderick’s memoir, along with court transcripts, medical reports, police statements and newspaper articles, show that he readily admitted his guilt. But do they reveal just why a young man would commit the most atrocious acts of violence? Why didn’t he defend himself more vigorously, or try to cover up the crime? And will he hang?
Located at O'Reilly Library

Nine men. Each of them at a different stage in life, each of them away from home, and each of them striving -- in the suburbs of Prague, in an overdeveloped Alpine village, beside a Belgian motorway, in a dingy Cyprus hotel -- to understand what it means to be alive. Tracing an arc from the spring of youth to the winter of old age, the separate narratives aggregate into a picture of a single shared existence, a picture that interrogates the state of modern manhood while bringing to life, the physical and emotional terrain of an increasingly globalized Europe
Located at O'Reilly Library

Two women arrive in a village on the Spanish coast. Rose is suffering from a strange illness and the doctors are mystified. Her daughter Sofia has brought her here to find a cure with the infamous and controversial Dr Gomez – a man of questionable methods and motives. Intoxicated by thick heat and the seductive people who move through it, both women begin to see their lives clearly for the first time in years.
Located at O'Reilly Library

Canada 1991. Ten-year-old Marie and her mother invite a guest into their home: a young woman who has fled China in the aftermath of the Tiananmen Square protests. Through the sharing of the woman’s family story, Madeleine Thein brings to life one of the most significant political regimes of the 20th century and its traumatic legacy, which still resonates for a new generation.
Located at O'Reilly Library

Eileen Dunlop is an unassuming yet disturbed young woman trapped between her role as her alcoholic father's caretaker and a day job as a secretary at the boys' prison. Consumed by resentment and self-loathing, Eileen tempers her dreary days with perverse fantasies and dreams of escaping. In the meantime, she fills her nights and weekends with shoplifting, stalking a buff prison guard, and cleaning up her father's messes. When the bright, beautiful, and cheery Rebecca Saint John arrives on the scene, Eileen is enchanted and proves unable to resist what appears at first to be a miraculously budding friendship.
Located at Cregan Library