Booker prize

 Neel Mukherjee, a Kolkata-born British citizen, today emerged as the only Indian-origin writer to be named in this year’s Man Booker Prize longlist of authors vying for the prize in its debut as a global literary award.

London-based Mukherjee has been selected for his second novel, ‘The Lives of Others’, published in May this year.

The book is based in the author’s birth place of Kolkata and centres around a dysfunctional Ghosh family in the 1960s................
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