A SHORTLIST PARA O BOOKER

Aravind Adiga, Sebastian Barry, Amitav Ghosh, Linda Grant, Philip Hensher e Steve Toltz, são os seis finalistas. Um deles será, em Outubro, o vencedor do Booker Prize.

De fora da lista fica "The enchantress of Florence", o último romance de Salman Rushdie, facto que causou alguma surpresa.

“Salman Rushdie's The Enchantress of Florence was simply not a good enough book to make it past the longlist stage of this year's Booker prize, according to the chair of judges, Michael Portillo. To add insult to the double Booker of Booker winner's injured pride, Portillo added that the judges didn't even spend that much time discussing it. “

- ler aqui o artigo completo no The Guardian.