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Man Booker Prize for Fiction longlist The longlist for the 2005 Man Booker Prize for Fictionthe UK's best known literary awardwas announced last week, and Penguin Group had five titles on the list. Called "the richest year for contemporary British and Commonwealth fiction since the launch of the Booker Prize in 1969" by The Observer in the UK, the longlist of 17 books was chosen from 109 total entries. Congratulations to Zadie Smith and Sebastian Barry for also qualifying for the Man Booker Prize's Shortlist.
A wise, tender, deeply funny novel about an eccentric elderly Ukrainian widower in England and the struggles of his two feuding daughters to thwart the voluptuous young gold-digger from the old country who sweeps him off his feet.
Tash Aw's highly original first novel juxtaposes three accounts of the life of an enigmatic man at a pivotal and haunting moment in Malaysian history.
From the acclaimed author of The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty and Annie Dunne comes the compelling tale of a young man caught between the Great War and the battle for Irish independence.
Coetzee offers a profound meditation on what makes us human, on what it means to grow older and reflect on how we have lived our lives.
Zadie Smith's third novel is a brilliant analysis of family life, the institution of marriage, intersections of the personal and political, and an honest look at people's deceptions. | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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