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Established in 1968, the Man Booker Prize for fiction names the best novel of the year written by a citizen of the British Commonwealth or Republic of Ireland. How Kazuo Ishiguro considers himself an international or homeless writer and how his 1989 novel The Remains of the Day mocks nostalgia for a mythic England. The 1990 novel Possession, by A. S. Byatt, as a love story and a detective novel that uses literary allusion to assert the importance of knowing one's intellectual heritage. The True History of the Kelly Gang, by the two-time Booker Prize winner Peter Carey, about an Australian hero and bandit, as well as class and religious struggle in the bush.
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