Published Juli 30th, 2008
Booker Prize Longlist
113 Vorschläge gab es für die Longlist des Booker Prizes. 13 haben es in diese exklusive Liste geschafft, darunter auch Thrillerautor Tom Rob “Child 44″ (dt: “Kind 44“, Dumont Buchverlag)
Adiga, Aravind: The White Tiger, Atlantic
Arnold, Gaynor: Girl in a Blue Dress, Tindal Street Press
Barry, Sebastian: The Secret Scripture, Faber and Faber
Berger, John: From A to X, Verso
de Kretser, Michelle: The Lost Dog, Chatto & Windus
Ghosh, Amitav: Sea of Poppies, John Murray
Grant, Linda: The Clothes on Their Backs, Virago
Hanif, Mohammed: A Case of Exploding Mangoes, Jonathan Cape
Hensher, Philip: The Northern Clemency, Fourth Estate
O’Neill, Joseph: Netherland, Fourth Estate,
Rushdie, Salman: The Enchantress of Florence, Jonathan Cape
Smith, Tom Rob: Child 44, Simon & Schuster
Toltz, Steve: A Fraction of the Whole, Hamish Hamilton
