Here is a good reason to crack open a novel – below is the short list for the Booker Prize as excerpted from the NYT:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe White Tiger\u201d by Mr. Adiga is the dark story of class struggle told by an Indian man who murders his employer. It was published in the United States by Free Press. Mr. Adiga, 33, a native of India who spent part of his childhood in Australia, is a former correspondent for Time magazine in India.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Secret Scripture\u201d by Sebastian Barry, published in the United States by Viking Adult, tells of an elderly woman and her psychiatrist who write parallel accounts of their meetings and their tragic pasts in modern-day Ireland. Mr. Barry, 53, was born in Dublin and has been shortlisted once before.<\/p>\n
\u201cSea of Poppies\u201d by Amitav Ghosh, to be published in the United States next month by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, is set at the brink of the Opium Wars and tells of a ship full of sailors, Indians and Westerners, who form a bond and begin a long-lasting dynasty. Mr. Ghosh, 52, grew up in Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and India, and wrote \u201cThe Glass Palace.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Clothes on Their Backs,\u201d written by Linda Grant and published in Britain by Virago Press, is the story of family and morality told by a narrator who was raised by Jewish refugees from Hungary. Ms. Grant, 57, was born in Liverpool and lives in London.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Northern Clemency\u201d by Philip Hensher tells of the ties between two families who live in Sheffield in the 1970s and \u201980s. It was published in Britain by Fourth Estate and is scheduled to be published in February by Alfred A. Knopf. Mr. Hensher, 43, is the author of five novels and a collection of short stories.<\/p>\n
\u201cA Fraction of the Whole,\u201d by Mr. Toltz, was published in the United States by Spiegel & Grau. It tells of a son whose attempt to understand his dead father takes him from Paris cafes to the Thai jungle to the Australian bush. Mr. Toltz, 36, was born in Australia, but has since lived in Montreal, Vancouver, Barcelona and Paris.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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