The 2008 Man Booker Prize Longlist

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The White Tiger
1.  The White Tiger by Aravind Adiga
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  "Debut novel depicting poverty in modern day India. According to Andrew Holgate in the Sunday Times 'the Indian tourist board won't be pleased,'"
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Girl in a Blue Dress
2.  Girl in a Blue Dress by Gaynor Arnold
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The Secret Scripture
3.  The Secret Scripture by Sebastian Barry
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  "From her bed in a crumbling Irish mental hospital, a 99-year-old woman (sister-in-law to Eneas McNulty from an earlier novel by the same author) writes a "brittle and honest-minded history of myself"."
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From A to X: A Story in Letters
4.  From A to X: A Story in Letters by John Berger
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The Lost Dog
5.  The Lost Dog by Michelle de Kretser
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Sea of Poppies
6.  Sea of Poppies by Amitav Ghosh
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  "The first of a three volume saga set in 19th century India."
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The Clothes on Their Backs
7.  The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
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  "A self-conscious girl, the daughter of Jewish immigrants, becomes fascinated by her uncle, a reviled slum landlord, in 1970s London."
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A Case of Exploding Mangoes
8.  A Case of Exploding Mangoes by Mohammed Hanif
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  "A satirical novel taking the mysterious circumstances surrounding the assassination of Pakistan's president Zia ul-Haq in 1988 as its starting point. The Washington Post compared it to Catch-22."
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The Northern Clemency
9.  The Northern Clemency by Philip Hensher
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Netherland
10.  Netherland by Joseph O'Neill
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  "A Dutch banker left alone in New York after 9/11 connects with other immigrants through his love of cricket."
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The Enchantress of Florence
11.  The Enchantress of Florence by Salman Rushdie
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  "Professor John Sutherland, a judge in 1999 and 2005, said that: 'if The Enchantress of Florence doesn’t win this year’s Man Booker I’ll curry my proof copy and eat it.'"
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Child 44
12.  Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
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  "Amazon chose Tom Rob Smith as one of their Rising Stars in Spring 2008, describing Child 44, set in Stalinist Russia in the 1950s, as "a gripping debut thriller.""
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A Fraction of the Whole
13.  A Fraction of the Whole by Steve Toltz
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  "Has been compared to A Confederacy of Dunces."
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