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WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER INTERNATIONAL PRIZE 2017. A Guardian and New Statesman Book of the Year. The setting is a comedy club in a small Israeli town. An audience that has come... Læs mere
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Finally reaching an uninhabited island, Shackleton, Worsley and four others sailed eight hundred miles in a small boat to the island of South Georgia, an astounding feat of navigation and courage.