Robert MacFarlane and his team of judges have announced the thirteen books which have been longlisted for the Man Booker Prize 2013. Here is the list in full:
Tash Aw – Five Star Billionaire (Fourth Estate)
NoViolet Bulawayo – We Need New Names (Chatto & Windus)
Eleanor Catton – The Luminaries (Granta)
Jim Crace – Harvest (Picador)
Eve Harris – The Marrying of Chani Kaufman (Sandstone Press)
Richard House – The Kills (Picador)
Jhumpa Lahiri – The Lowland (Bloomsbury)
Alison MacLeod – Unexploded (Hamish Hamilton)
Colum McCann – TransAtlantic (Bloomsbury)
Charlotte Mendelson – Almost English (Mantle)
Ruth Ozeki – A Tale for the Time Being (Canongate)
Donal Ryan – The Spinning Heart (Doubleday Ireland)
Colm Tóibín – The Testament of Mary (Viking)
MacFarlane said the selection “range[s] from the traditional to the experimental, from the first century AD to the present day, from 100 pages to 1,000 and from Shanghai to Hendon”.
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