Sep 15 2015
Marlon James, Tom McCarthy, Chigozie Obioma, Sunjeev Sahota, Anne Tyler and Hanya Yanagihara are the shortlisted authors for the 2015 Man Booker Prize for Fiction.
Their books are:
Marlon James (Jamaica), A Brief History of Seven Killings (Riverhead Books (USA))
Tom McCarthy (UK), Satin Island (Jonathan Cape)
Chigozie Obioma (Nigeria), The Fishermen (ONE, Pushkin Press)
Sunjeev Sahota (UK), The Year of the Runaways (Picador)
Anne Tyler (US), A Spool of Blue Thread (Knopf)
Hanya Yanagihara (US), A Little Life (Doubleday)
The Funeral Cryer by Wenyan Lu
Debut novelist Wenyan Lu brings us this witty yet profound story about one woman's midlife reawakening in contemporary rural China.
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