Booker Short List

[Derek C. Maus]

>From Salon
(http://www.salon.com/books/log/1999/09/22/weisbach_booker/index.html)

The short-list for this year's Booker Prize was announced on
Tuesday. J.M. Coetzee of South Africa (winner of the 1983 award
for "Life and Times of Michael K") got a nod for "Disgrace," as did
India's Anita Desai for "Fasting, Feasting." British novelist and
playwright Michael Frayn earned his first nomination for
"Headlong"; so did Egyptian-English novelist Ahdah Soueif for "The
Map of Love," first-time Scottish novelist Andrew O'Hagan for
"Our Fathers" and Irishman Colm Tibn for "The Blackwater
Lightship."

Anybody read any of them?

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