New Delhi, July 23 – Kolkata-born author Neel Mukherjee’s second novel The Lives of Others has been nominated for 2014 Man Booker Prize.
On Tuesday, a list of thirteen nominees was released on the Man Booker Prize website.
The list of 13 nominees, apart from Mukherjee’s book, includes To Rise Again at a Decent Hour by Mr. Ferris, The Narrow Road to the Deep North by Richard Flanagan, We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Ms. Fowler, The Blazing World by Siri Hustvedt, J by Howard Jacobson, The Wake by Paul Kingsnorth, The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell, Us by David Nicholls, The Dog by Joseph O’Neill, Orfeo by Richard Powers, How to be Both by Ali Smith and History of the Rain by Niall Williams.
The novel The Lives Of Others is about a labourer’s struggle to feed his family set against a turbulent backdrop of 1960’s India. The author’s first novel, A Life Apart (2010), won the Vodafone – Crossword Award in India, the Writers Guild of Great Britain Award for best fiction and was shortlisted for the inaugural DSC Prize for South Asian Literature. The Lives of Others is his second novel, and the author now lives in London.
-India Today
