Man Booker Prize Shortlist

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The Man Booker Prize long list consisted of quite a few gems, and I'm glad to see the shortlist parse that down to something that truly shines.  While this is a list comprised of writers who published in the British Commonwealth, most of the titles will be available in the United States in the forthcoming months.  Only The Lighthouse by Alison Moore without a publisher in the United States, but you can find it on Kindle. 

The Man Booker shortlist this year is comprised of:

Author, Title (Publisher)
Tan Twan Eng, The Garden of Evening Mists (Myrmidon Books)
Deborah Levy, Swimming Home (And Other Stories/Faber & Faber)
Hilary Mantel, Bring up the Bodies (Fourth Estate)
Alison Moore, The Lighthouse (Salt)
Will Self, Umbrella (Bloomsbury)
Jeet Thayil, Narcopolis (Faber & Faber)

This is the 44th year the prize has been awarded, celebrating excellence in authors of the British Commonwealth and the winner will be announced Tuesday, October 16th.  According to Peter Stothard, Chair of judges, the books were chosen based on the power of their prose.  "We loved the shock of language shown in so many different ways and were exhilarated by the vigour and vividly defined values in the six books that we chose – and in the visible confidence of the novel's place in forming our words and ideas.”