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Booker shortlist is announced

Tuesday, September 9th, 2008

Just for the record, this year’s Man Booker Shortlist has been announced:

The White Tiger - Aravind Adiga
The Secret Scripture - Sebastian Barry
Sea of Poppies - Amitav Ghosh
The Clothes on Their Backs - Linda Grant
The Northern Clemency - Philip Hensher
A Fraction of the Whole - Steve Toltz

Perhaps the most notable absences from the longlist are John [...]

Netherland by Joseph O’Neill

Sunday, August 24th, 2008

I can sympathise, to an extent, with  DoveGreyReader who approached Joseph O’Neill’s Netherland with trepidation given the tag ‘post 9-11 masterpiece’ (the Observer) that has been widely used by  enthusiastic reviewers.
It’s a problematic tag for any novel, but particularly so in this case given that the novel scarcely concerns itself with the attacks or their aftermath.  That’s not [...]