Tobias Menzies reads from ’Mater 2-10’ | The Booker Prize

Watch Tobias Menzies read from International Booker Prize 2024-shortlisted ’Mater 2-10’, written by Hwang Sok-yong, translated by Sora Kim-Russell Youngjae Josephine Bae. The story so far: Centred on three generations of a family of rail workers and a laid-off factory worker staging a high-altitude sit-in, Mater 2-10 vividly depicts the lives of ordinary working Koreans, starting with the Japanese colonial era, continuing through Liberation and right up to the 21st century. The large cast of complex characters includes Daryeong, AKA Yamashita, a former pig farmer who rises through the ranks of the police force, and who pits himself against the country’s labour unions, activists and communists. Discover the book: Directed by Charlotte Hamblin for Merman. --- The Booker Prizes on TikTok: @thebookerprizes The Booker Prizes on Twitter: The Booker Prizes on Facebook: The Booker Prizes on Instagram: 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. #BookerPrize #InternationalBooker2024 #TranslatedFiction #ReadingRecommendations #BookTube #TobiasMenzies #GameOfThrones #Outlander #TheCrownNetflix