The Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction 2008 Longlist

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The Blood of Flowers
1.  The Blood of Flowers by Anita Amirrezvani
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  "In 17th century Iran, a bright young village girl discovers a genius for carpet-making, but struggles to make her way as a single orphan."
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The Room of Lost Things
2.  The Room of Lost Things by Stella Duffy
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  "The diverse life of a south London district, as seen by a lonely widower running a dry cleaning shop."
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The Keep
3.  The Keep by Jennifer Egan
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  "A millionaire invites a cousin he has not seen for 20 years to help renovate an Austrian castle, with some very Gothic consequences."
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The Gathering
4.  The Gathering by Anne Enright
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  "The bleak story of the 12-strong Hegarty family, narrated by 39-year-old Veronica as she mourns the suicide of one of her siblings. Winner of the 2007 Man Booker Prize."
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The Clothes on Their Backs
5.  The Clothes on Their Backs by Linda Grant
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  "The widowed niece of a Peter Rachman-like property magnate is employed by him to write his memoirs, amid the rising racial tensions of west London in the early 70s. Grant won the 2000 Orange Prize."
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The Master Bedroom
6.  The Master Bedroom by Tessa Hadley
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  "An academic who has taken a sabbatical in Cardiff to nurse her ailing mother, finds herself drawn into the romantic orbit of a married doctor, and his teenage son."
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Fault Lines
7.  Fault Lines by Nancy Huston
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  "A formally daring story in which four six-year-old narrators portray the life of the same German-American family over four successive generations, recounted in reverse chronological order."
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Sorry
8.  Sorry by Gail Jones
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  "When an Englishman working to help the Australian government forcibly "assimilate" aboriginal children is murdered, his daughter blanks the memories, but is later forced to face a traumatic past."
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The Outcast
9.  The Outcast by Sadie Jones
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  "A middle-class family in a middle-England town in the 1950s is set dangerously out of joint after the mother's death."
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The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam
10.  The Voluptuous Delights of Peanut Butter and Jam by Lauren Liebenberg
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  "Two sisters enjoy what appears to be an enchanted childhood in late 70s Rhodesia, until the arrival of their orphaned cousin dooms their idyll."
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When We Were Bad: A Novel
11.  When We Were Bad: A Novel by Charlotte Mendelson
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  "When Leo runs off with another rabbi's wife minutes before his wedding, his famous mother, also a rabbi, takes the blame, straining this already dysfunctional family to breaking point."
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In the Dark
12.  In the Dark by Deborah Moggach
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  "The dreary peace of a boarding house in 1918 Southwark is disturbed by the arrival of a happy-go-lucky butcher intent on seducing its female inhabitants."
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Mistress
13.  Mistress by Anita Nair
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  "A charismatic travel writer visits Kerala and becomes entangled in a love triangle on penetrating the mysterious, insular world of kathakali dance."
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Lullabies for Little Criminals
14.  Lullabies for Little Criminals by Heather O'Neill
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  "Thirteen-year-old Baby is daughter to a dead mother and a heroin-addict father. Moving from one city to another, she decides to leave home and make her own way through the grimy streets of Montreal."
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The Bastard of Istanbul
15.  The Bastard of Istanbul by Elif Shafak
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  "A cross-generational saga in pursuit of the hidden secrets which underlie a family curse. The author was prosecuted (but acquitted) in Turkey for "denigrating the national character" with this book."
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The Septembers of Shiraz
16.  The Septembers of Shiraz by Dalia Sofer
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  "Two years after the Iranian revolution, Isaac Amin is arrested. Months of interrogations and torture lie ahead, with only recollections of the indolent days of his youth in Shiraz as sustenance."
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The End of Mr Y
17.  The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas
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  "Ariel Manto sets off into Mindspace in pursuit of the CIA in this cerebral science-fiction thriller."
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Monster Love
18.  Monster Love by Carol Topolski
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  "A dark exploration of a couple who keep an unwanted child in a cage, before leaving her to starve to death."
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The Road Home
19.  The Road Home by Rose Tremain
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  "Rose Tremain charts the story of Lev, a 40-year-old widower who comes to London in search of a new life."
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Lottery
20.  Lottery by Patricia Wood
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  "For the most part, Perry L Crandall's family pretend he doesn't exist. But then he wins $12m in the lottery and people start coming out of the woodwork."
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