In 2004 the judges of the Man Booker prize passed up the chance to honour the sprawling, drunken family as one of the finest pieces of theatre that literature has to offer when it picked Alan Holling-hurst's "The Line of Beauty" over Gerard Woodward's "I'll Go to Bed at Noon". This week a new panel unexpectedly gave fiction's best-known award to Anne Enright for "The Gathering", a raw examination of a family (Irish, of course) made up of 12 children, seven miscarriages and more than a lifetime of drink, masturbation and misery.rnIn making their choice, the judges turned their backs on three more interesting offerings: Ian McEwan's "On Che-sil Beach", one of the year's biggest sellers; Mohsin Hamid's "The Reluctant Fundamentalist", a fine examination of America's fear of Islam; and an engaging and original study of the power that literature has to change lives irrevocably (Lloyd Jones's "Mister Pip").
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机译：2004年，曼布克奖的评委们放弃了表彰这个庞大而醉酒的家庭的机会，这是文学界提供的最好的剧院之一，因为它取代了杰拉德·伍德沃德（Gerard Woodward）的《美线》（Alan Holling-hurst）的《美线》（The Line of Beauty）。我中午去睡觉。”本周，一个新的小组意外地将安妮·恩赖特（Anne Enright）的小说《小说集》（The Gathering）授予了小说类的最著名奖项，这是对一个由12个孩子，7个流产和超过一生的饮酒，手淫构成的家庭（当然是爱尔兰人）的原始检查在做出选择时，评委们放弃了另外三种有趣的产品：伊恩·麦克尤恩（Ian McEwan）的“ On Che-sil Beach”，这是当年销量最大的卖家之一；穆罕默德·哈米德（Mohsin Hamid）的《勉强的原教旨主义者》，很好地考察了美国对伊斯兰的恐惧；以及对文学必须不可改变地改变生活的力量的一次引人入胜的原创研究（劳埃德·琼斯的《先生皮普先生》）。
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