la longlist del Man Booker Prize

la longlist del Man Booker Prize è pronta, 13 scrittori si contenderanno il più importante premio letterario per gli autori di lingua inglese. Gran favorito pare essere JM Coetzze, già vincitore due volte del premio. Tra i finalisti, Brooklyn di Colm Toibin è appena stato pubblicato in Italy da Bompiani

Author                          Title                                          Publisher

Byatt, AS ,     The Children’s Book    ,             Random House – Chatto and Windus
Coetzee, J M   ,            Summertime     ,                      Random House – Harvill Secker
Foulds, Adam     ,         The Quickening Maze    ,          Random House – Jonathan Cape
Hall, Sarah       ,            How to paint a dead man  ,    Faber and Faber
Harvey, Samantha   ,   The Wilderness      ,                  Random House – Jonathan Cape
Lever, James           ,     Me Cheeta      ,                        HarperCollins – Fourth Estate
Mantel, Hilary       ,       Wolf Hall         ,                         HarperCollins – Fourth Estate
Mawer, Simon    ,         The Glass Room    ,                   Little, Brown
O’Loughlin, Ed       ,      Not Untrue & Not Unkind    ,    Penguin – Ireland
Scudamore, James  ,    Heliopolis         ,                        Random House – Harvill Secker
Toibin, Colm           ,     Brooklyn  ,                                Penguin – Viking
Trevor, William        ,     Love and Summer                   Penguin – Viking
Waters, Sarah         ,     The Little Stranger      ,              Little, Brown – Virago